(23-10-2023, 12:18 PM)Aga Tentakulus wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Question:
If VM-4 is a character that only appears in the front, then with the possibility of o,v,+,- in the variants, the character "4" should still appear in different places, since there are other letters on the left and right. But it does not.
Do I see this correctly?
I was not designing this cipher to resemble or mimic Voynichese. I doubt that Voynichese mainly matches visually similar characters, otherwise there would be many more patterns like rasy, saiir, etc.
If Voynichese is a distance based cipher, q could be a qualifying mark (essentially qo and o being two separate terminators). I mention a similar scheme at the end, when I use You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. as a prop to discuss physical limitations and problems when attacking distance based ciphers: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
Quoting the relevant part:
"Is it possible, that two kinds of marks are used here? I see no obvious candidate for a separate mark, but it's remarkable that almost all of the crosses are preceded by one of four characters: 8 (or EVA d), c (or EVA e), x and a. The sequence goes +...8+...8+.c+.....c+...8+?+ (line break) ..x+...x+...x+...x+..a+..(a+)..a+. As shown in "Ne faites rien qui vous puisse offenser" code before, special symbols preceding the distance marks can be used to map different charactes to the same distance. In which case an alphabet of at least 16 characters could be encoded on this page."