21-03-2026, 01:18 PM
(21-03-2026, 12:07 PM)eggyk wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Perhaps in that case, yes, "Hoax" was the only option those cryptographers had other than "we don't know", which was clearly an unacceptable thing for them to admit to themselves.
IIRC there were several famous cipher books from the 1400s and 1500s that cryptographers had declared to be hoaxes more than 100 years ago, but were eventually cracked. Two of them were solved by "our" Jim Reeds.
And then there is the Rohonc codex, which was widely believed to be a hoax too. WIth a named suspect an all.
All the best, --stolfi.