04-08-2025, 02:34 AM
I should add here that line-by-line reuse, similar to Timm and Schinner's self-citation algorithm, will be an important piece of the puzzle. I wasn't able to discuss it in my presentation, but the Stars section of Voynich B exhibits markedly more token autocorrelation than Naibbe ciphertexts do at low amounts of sequence offset (1-300 tokens), while at large amounts of sequence offset the Naibbe cipher and the VMS match. I see this as a pretty clear signpost that there's some amount of line-by-line reuse and more word repetition than the current version of the Naibbe cipher can randomly generate.

