(18-10-2023, 12:21 PM)oshfdk wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.As far as I understand the principle, there is a rectangular table of letters and we skip from a square to a square writing down how many squares we skip horizontally and vertically each time.It would be a variant using relative coordinates (relative to the current position on the table). I used simple Cartesian coordinates, absolute. Space = 0, o = 1, e = 2, etc. in no particular order, but I found that some orders worked a lot better than others - more efficient.
Quote:If the table is kept the same for the whole book or at least for large portions of the book (and I think it's really pointless to consider other possibilities, as they gradually approach the one-time pad in being theoretically unbreakable), can we try to identify any patterns that would betray some of the properties of the plaintext?My cunning plan
is to try and crack my own enciphered Latin texts. I'm not there yet because I'm not happy with the special rules (ligatures and gallows) that I plan to add.Quote:How do we pick where to start on the table? It would be impossible to decipher this without knowing the starting square, I suppose.The lines start and end at the (space, space) coordinates (corners of the table), see: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
"Vords" (Voynichese words) start and end at a border of the table.