Mark Knowles > 10-09-2019, 12:32 AM
RobGea > 10-09-2019, 12:58 AM
Anton > 10-09-2019, 01:02 AM
Koen G > 10-09-2019, 07:09 AM
Mark Knowles > 10-09-2019, 01:20 PM
(10-09-2019, 07:09 AM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I think the only way to find out is to try it. Otherwise it's pure speculation.
What we do know is that the VM would be a relatively massive ciphertext, so any increase in complexity would lead to a large increase in effort, if it is to be sustained throughout the whole text.
-JKP- > 11-09-2019, 06:20 AM
MarcoP > 11-09-2019, 09:27 AM
(10-09-2019, 01:20 PM)Mark Knowles Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I just doubt that there would have necessarily been more work involved with producing a manuscript like the Voynich using a simple substitution cipher copying from an existing text than producing complexly structured nonsense text of the kind found in the Voynich.
Anton > 11-09-2019, 10:05 AM
Mark Knowles > 11-09-2019, 12:10 PM
(11-09-2019, 10:05 AM)Anton Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Marco brings in a valid point - in fact, when you write a meaningful text, you have to produce the content, to begin with, - which is significant effort in itself. When you write a meaningless text, you don't bother about the content at all.
So the effort is maximized when you produce a meaningful enciphered text.
MarcoP > 11-09-2019, 01:01 PM