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Historical ciphers, when they were introduced and their effect

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• RE: Historical ciphers, when they were introduced and their effect

  Rafal > 7 hours ago

  And I'd like to add one thing. All these ciphers are not similar at all to Voynich Manuscript. The most similar way I can think of would be just coding letters as Roman numerals.
  
  Actually I have seen such cipher, most probably older than Voynich Manuscript.
  I don't remember where I have found it but have a look:
  
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• RE: Historical ciphers, when they were introduced and their effect

  ReneZ > 6 hours ago

  (Yesterday, 04:28 PM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Conclusion: all known ciphers that have actually been used before the late 15th century make the plaintext even less like Voynichese than would be the case with simple substitution.

  
  That seems largely correct to me.
  
  Let's also not forget that this text has primarily attracted cryptographers and cryptologists, right from the very start. This is therefore perhaps the most trodden area of all. Unfortunately, we don't seem to have any detailed explanations of all the things that have been studied, and why they failed...
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