geoffreycaveney > 18-03-2019, 11:09 PM
(18-03-2019, 10:49 PM)DonaldFisk Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(18-03-2019, 09:55 PM)geoffreycaveney Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(18-03-2019, 06:18 PM)Emma May Smith Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I'm playing with it, so I hope that Don doesn't publish a solution until somebody gets it right.
I will be very impressed by whomever manages to decrypt it and identify the source, because I have looked up every single significant text of the 14th and 15th centuries that I can think of or identify, and I haven't found a single one that begins with a letter pattern that would match Donald's ciphertext. I'm sure I'm missing something, obviously, but this is a pretty interesting challenge.
There's an error in your reasoning, and when I wrote "roughly contemporary" I meant plus or minus a century.
This is an interesting thread, as we're looking at the problem from the other end: instead of trying to decrypt the text, we're looking at ways of encrypting texts, i.e. putting ourselves in the shoes of whoever created the Voynich Manuscript.
Aldis Mengelsons > 19-03-2019, 12:03 AM
(18-03-2019, 10:49 PM)DonaldFisk Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(18-03-2019, 09:55 PM)geoffreycaveney Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(18-03-2019, 06:18 PM)Emma May Smith Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I'm playing with it, so I hope that Don doesn't publish a solution until somebody gets it right.
I will be very impressed by whomever manages to decrypt it and identify the source, because I have looked up every single significant text of the 14th and 15th centuries that I can think of or identify, and I haven't found a single one that begins with a letter pattern that would match Donald's ciphertext. I'm sure I'm missing something, obviously, but this is a pretty interesting challenge.
There's an error in your reasoning, and when I wrote "roughly contemporary" I meant plus or minus a century.
This is an interesting thread, as we're looking at the problem from the other end: instead of trying to decrypt the text, we're looking at ways of encrypting texts, i.e. putting ourselves in the shoes of whoever created the Voynich Manuscript.
-JKP- > 19-03-2019, 01:49 AM
geoffreycaveney > 19-03-2019, 02:25 AM
(19-03-2019, 01:49 AM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I wish I had time to decipherDon's code, but I pop in, scan-read, blast a quick note, and then I have to run until the next moment when I have to save files or compile and have a few moments free.
Rene and Don, don't publish solutions yet, if you don't mind. If people are willing to wait, I'd like a chance this weekend to see if I can work them out (assuming the weekend ever comes, I've been trying to get a weekend off since December, global commerce sux).
-JKP- > 19-03-2019, 02:49 AM
geoffreycaveney > 19-03-2019, 04:51 AM
(19-03-2019, 02:49 AM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Geoffrey, you could have posted that as a spoiler so other people would have a chance when they have time.
-JKP- > 19-03-2019, 05:05 AM
geoffreycaveney > 19-03-2019, 01:01 PM
(19-03-2019, 05:05 AM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I didn't mean to sound harsh, Geoffrey and I think you have to add the spoiler tag manually (which you wouldn't have known).
Sometimes I sound brittle because I jump in, read fast, respond fast and then I'm gone again.
geoffreycaveney > 19-03-2019, 02:17 PM
Emma May Smith > 19-03-2019, 08:11 PM