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On a more fundamental point, I am concerned that a "stateful one to many cipher" may be helpful when trying to decode text, but will not be able to explain how any plain text, when encoded using this, will have the properties that Marco Ponzi already pointed out.

No one claimed that it, alone, explains the properties that MarcoP You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..

Actually, I do claim this, quite explicitly. A distance based cipher has very good explanation for many of the properties of Voynichese. On the other hand, most one-to-many ciphers can explain a lot of properties. Distance based ciphers just play nicely into the irregular spacing patterns and irregular character shapes..

However, until I have some specific evidence, I don't claim Voynichese is a distance based cipher. I have just started on my fourth text in Voynich marathon, dedicated to identifying the properties of possible one-to-many encoding. I really have no good answer so far, it's better to stay open-minded.

If "distance-based ciphertexts" are possible, I'd like to see concrete examples (in the other thread) of ciphertext that looks a bit like Voynichese to get a better appreciation of what would cause these properties to appear and how encoding would work in practice: how many ad hoc suppositions are needed and how constrains that rule Voynichese statistical properties could be enforced.

Thank you for the reference to Marco's post, I forgot about it. I've added some information in that thread.