06-01-2026, 02:41 PM
(06-01-2026, 02:17 PM)oshfdk wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.There is nothing wrong with this in principle, but my expectations of the cipher solution for a book is for it to be compatible with reading. Complex decoding schemes are good for short messages, I'm not sure they are practical for a volume (or collection) the size of the Voynich Manuscript. But these are just my preferences.
I suppose it depends on how important the information was, how quickly it was designed to be read (or if it was designed to be transcribed at the end location, only once) and whether the speed of encoding was important.
With the right key or ruleset included i can imagine that translating a page would not take all that long. Not much longer than a 1-1 substitution of letters. Encoding is not too slow using this method and is quite pleasant. With a 8-9 symbol ciphertext it doesn't take long at all to remember how to encode each letter.