A Cipher Thought Experiment
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(21-03-2025, 01:49 PM)trajan117 wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Thanks for the input. Yeah, I might include some "clues" later. I would just like to see a pet theory of mine falsified. I would consider it falsified if someone is able to crack it without clues. Simply put, if someone can crack it, I know my idea can't be right.

Whatever the idea/theory is, if no-one actually tries to crack this code, then the fact that no-one cracked it will not prove or refute anything. It's quite easy to invent a cipher that would take days or even weeks of dedicated effort to break. I'm not sure a lot of people would seriously try breaking it just for fun.

When it comes to VMS, it seems extraordinary that someone in the XV century only using the methods and knowledge available then would create a cipher (assuming it is a cipher) that would withstand a lot of effort from many people for more than a hundred years. This is what makes the Voynich MS so attractive, at least for me.
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A Cipher Thought Experiment - by trajan117 - 21-03-2025, 02:37 AM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by nablator - 21-03-2025, 10:11 AM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by trajan117 - 21-03-2025, 01:49 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by oshfdk - 21-03-2025, 11:08 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by oshfdk - 21-03-2025, 10:18 AM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by Rafal - 21-03-2025, 12:51 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by RobGea - 21-03-2025, 01:01 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by Koen G - 21-03-2025, 01:26 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by nablator - 21-03-2025, 02:10 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by trajan117 - 21-03-2025, 07:03 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by Koen G - 21-03-2025, 09:21 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by nablator - 21-03-2025, 10:52 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by trajan117 - 21-03-2025, 06:02 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by oshfdk - 22-03-2025, 12:09 AM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by oshfdk - 22-03-2025, 12:30 AM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by nablator - 22-03-2025, 04:50 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by oshfdk - 22-03-2025, 04:52 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by oshfdk - 22-03-2025, 04:56 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by nablator - 23-03-2025, 06:21 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by RobGea - 22-03-2025, 06:10 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by asteckley - 22-03-2025, 11:12 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by oshfdk - 23-03-2025, 11:17 AM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by nablator - 23-03-2025, 11:25 AM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by oshfdk - 23-03-2025, 11:45 AM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by nablator - 23-03-2025, 11:49 AM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by oshfdk - 23-03-2025, 01:59 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by asteckley - 23-03-2025, 03:41 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by oshfdk - 23-03-2025, 04:01 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by asteckley - 23-03-2025, 04:16 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by nablator - 23-03-2025, 03:50 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by ReneZ - 23-03-2025, 12:02 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by oshfdk - 23-03-2025, 07:43 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by oshfdk - 24-03-2025, 10:14 AM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by nablator - 24-03-2025, 10:33 AM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by Ruby Novacna - 24-03-2025, 12:15 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by nablator - 24-03-2025, 12:36 PM
RE: A Cipher Thought Experiment - by oshfdk - 24-03-2025, 11:26 AM

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