The VMS as a possible chain encryption ( Mod 23 ).

[magnesium]

I am already looking forward to @magnesium's contribution on Voynich Manuscript Day. He wants to present a substitution cipher that encrypts Latin and Italian as VMS-like ciphertext.

I would guess that the method is similar to that of @oshfdk (see post You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. ). At least, extensive mapping will be almost impossible to avoid.

Thanks! Yes, extensive mapping is impossible to avoid, and I completely agree with @oshfdk that to reconcile the properties of the VMS with most natural languages, you need 1 plaintext letter often mapped to a string of 2-3 Voynichese glyphs. There is a lot to like about the chain cipher approach, but I didn't pursue that exact strategy for the cipher I will be presenting at VMD, in large part because I wanted to see how far a more "vanilla" approach to verbose homophonic substitution could be pushed.