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[Jorge_Stolfi]

Regarding the Voynich texts, Alan Turing (surely one of the most quaified persons in deciphering) was asked and it seems like he either rejected the possibility of deciphering VMS at all or rejected just the idea of him trying it. This may be a result of VMS's circumstances or only a personal disposition of Turing himself, who was known to be more than excentric.
I don't know details about Panofsky, but the classic Science completely failed yet with all tries to solve this mystery.
Panofsky gave, obviously, also just some not-satisfying answers.

But You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. Turing's colleague at Bletchley Park, did take the challenge, like with Milton Friedman at the NSA; and IIUC he passed the "virus" on to Mary D'Imperio in the 1970s.

When I gave a talk on the VMS at my university, sometime in the 1990s, Bill Tutte -- another Bletchley Park "graduate" (by then a graph theorist at the U of Waterloo, CA) was visiting us and happened to be in the audience.  He corrected my spelling of Tiltman's name, blush.  (But how could someone be called "Tiltman"?  Only in Britain...)

Reminds me of this joke that my advisor told me, before my first presentation at an international conference:

  Joe was a timid and totally unremarkable man who lived a boring but perfectly 
  correct life, without a single sin or ill deed.  So, when he passed away, he went 
  straight to Heaven.  There, to his surprise and embarrassment , he was met 
  by a cheering crowd, and Saint Peter in person greeted him profusely with hugs
  and long handshakes. 
  -- Why all this? -- asked Joe -- I did not do anything remarkable or heroic...
  -- Well, you see -- explained Peter -- nowadays we get very, very few new 
  people here. So, when one arrives, we must throw a great celebration.
  -- Oh yes?
  -- Yes; and, by the way, tonight we are going to have a dinner in your honor. 
  You will be asked to give a speech, so be prepared for that.
  -- A speech? Me? But... but... I have never given a speech, and  don't even 
  know what I could say...
  -- Don't worry -- said Peter.  -- Just tell us something interesting that happened 
  to you down there.  Everybody is your friend here, they will applaud anything 
  you say.
  -- But... I can't recall a single interesting thing.  My life has been just boring
  routine...
  -- Come on, think hard.  Anything will do.
  -- Well... The most extraordinary thing I can think of is one day when I was a
  little kid there was a heavy rain, our house was flooded, and we had to climb
  onto the kitchen table.  Do you think it will do?
  -- Well... Yeah, it will do.  But I must warn you: Noah will be in the audience.
  
All the best, --stolfi