IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT (well, sort of)

[oshfdk]

But what does that matter? The purpose of an SDA is to prove the fact that, regardless of who first publishes the discovery (i.e. solution to a bigger problem), the anagram's author was  "first", and that he had already made the discovery at the time that he produced the anagram.

I'm not talking now about Jorge_Stolfi's anagram, because I believe that Jorge_Stolfi is acting in good faith. However talking about the use of anagrams in principle, I can claim now that the eventual solution to the Voynich Manuscript lies in the anagram of:

ALL SOLUTIONS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ARE MORE SO

and when in 1-5-10-20 years someone would publish a solution, I could find an anagram of the above that seems to describe this solution and say "told you so N years ago". Likewise, if I wasn't sure that Stolfi was acting in good faith and someone else now would come up with the same discovery before the "important announcement", Stolfi couldn't effectively use the anagram to prove being the first, because it's impossible to prove that Stolfi really meant "USES NAME INDIA" and not "NUDE MEN IS ASIA" or something entirely different.

Moreover, until I "publish the official decoding" of "ALL SOLUTIONS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ARE MORE SO" I can claim the priority in any anagram protected solution made after this moment.

Overall, I don't think anagrams are an effective way of proving/verifying priority nowadays.