Mark Knowles > 01-04-2020, 01:44 AM
-JKP- > 01-04-2020, 04:33 AM
(01-04-2020, 01:44 AM)Mark Knowles Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.... The key features of ciphers of that time was the use of nulls, homophones and a glossary...
Quote:Now in general nulls correspond to nonsense/meaningless text. Likewise homophones correspond to the scope for identical words being spelled in completely different ways.
Quote:A glossary could apply in the context of rare symbols corresponding to specific words. I described before elsewhere how a diplomatic cipher key could be modified in a minor way to use glyph strings as an example of this.
MarcoP > 01-04-2020, 06:04 AM
(01-04-2020, 01:44 AM)Mark Knowles Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The idea of a preponderance of null words i.e. filler text is something I have also addressed elsewhere. I am not yet persuaded by the idea that all the text is meaningless, but I find the idea that there is a significant amount of filler text hard to avoid.
Timm&Schinner' Wrote:The proposed text generation method is not only supported by many details of self-similarities uncovered in the VMS text, and is fully compatible with the historical background, but also even quantitatively reproduces the key statistical properties. In particular, we were able to demonstrate that our sample “facsimile” text fulfills both of Zipf’s laws. Following Occam’s principle, this theory provides the optimal hypothesis available to explain all facts currently known about the VMS. It, however, does not totally dismiss the steganography hypothesis
(01-04-2020, 01:44 AM)Mark Knowles Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.it is said that [the Voynich] cannot be a cipher
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