Torsten > 11 hours ago
Quote:Technical rebuttal: semantic density and the “Naibbe” verbosity constraint." Cryptologia, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Quote:I’m pleased to share that my paper, “Technical Rebuttal: Semantic Density and the ‘Naibbe’ Verbosity Constraint,” has been accepted for publication in Cryptologia and is now in production with Taylor & Francis.
The paper examines a focused technical question in Voynich Manuscript research: whether short, compact Voynich-like ciphertext units can, in principle, preserve greater local information density than the Naibbe cipher model appears to permit.
Using a deliberately limited toy model, I illustrate how a cipher architecture incorporating positional behavior, nulls, permutation, and abbreviation could encode more plaintext information while retaining compact ciphertext forms.
The paper does not claim a decipherment of the Voynich Manuscript. Its purpose is narrower: to clarify what conclusions can—and cannot—be drawn from the Naibbe model regarding the possible information density of alternative Voynich-like cipher systems.
Koen G > 2 hours ago