06-01-2026, 04:46 PM
(06-01-2026, 03:13 PM)kckluge wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Unless I'm misreading this somehow, this is identical to the type of encryption scheme Robert Brumbaugh proposed in the 70's. There's a Ninja thread on this here: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. His specific assignment of glyphs to digits came from his reading of the marginal (Voynichese) text on one of the pages as cryptarithmetic problems. Back in the early days of the reading list Jim Reeds worked to analyze his paper "deciphering" the labels on a couple Zodiac pages and I looked at the "deciphered" Pharma page labels in another paper, as he didn't give the full details necessary to replicate his work. It goes without saying, his solution didn't go anywhere.
Could it work with a different assignment of letters to digits to glyphs? I don't know. You'll probably run into the same problem he did when he tried extending his technique from labels to the running text, which resulted in repetitive pseudo-Latin gibberish (which led him to the conclusion that the text was a hoax [by Dee & Kelly], with the decipherable labels intended to hook a potential buyer [Rudolph II]).
That might be so, i will take a look. To be clear im not proposing a specific solution here, but a type of solution or potential rabbithole. The main reason i found it interesting is that repeated letters could be explained as each glyph has multiple potential meanings (oo, on, op can all be same double glyph). There would be seemingly infinite ways to use this type of system, with an infinite amount of abritrary rulesets that could have been imposed (if such a system was used at all). However, i think that if you happened to find the correct system it would produce very convincing results.
When i was looking at next step to this, my best guess was using different numbers of glyphs and different variations within those systems (such as grouping vowels into glyphs or something) and checking different language plaintexts to see if any are closer to what we see in voynichese.