How to decipher the MS?

[oshfdk]

One of the reasons why I created the Naibbe cipher is to provide a sandbox in which to test these kinds of ideas. The Naibbe cipher is a fully functional cipher that by design does a good job of replicating many, but not all, word-level VMS properties. What happens when we analyze Naibbe ciphertexts as if we don't know how the cipher worked, and then we peek under the hood to see why we obtained the results we obtained? I'd encourage you to attempt this very analysis on the 20 reference Naibbe ciphertexts I have provided.

I'm not sure this experiment would teach me anything. The idea is probabilistic in nature, it's not guaranteed that any particular cipher can be decoded without fully identifying its internal workings and it's obvious that some ciphers can be decoded without fully identifying their mechanics. The fact that some particular cipher can or cannot be cracked this way won't mean anything for the scheme used in the Voynich Manuscript, as far as I understand.