Re: VMs: RE: St Mark's Basilica in Venice...?

["Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

> Hi Dennis,
>
> At 21:58 02/11/2003 -0600, Dennis wrote:
> >         You've probably said, but who are your suspects, and
> >where in northern Italy do you think the VMs was
> >composed?
>
> IMO... the encryption system was designed by Cicco Simonetta in Milan (and
> executed by a team of people drawn from his Milanese Chancery) in (say)
> 1465-1470 - though the plaintext documents themselves date from 1460-1465.
> I'm also pretty sure where roughly 70% of the plaintexts came from (and
who
> wrote them, and why) - and this is all supported by a marvellous proof
(but
> one which this margin is too small to contain). :-)
>
> For now, all I'll say is that all the names have been mentioned on-list
> several times, so the theory (if verified) shouldn't really come as a huge
> surprise to anyone here. :-)
>
> Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....
>

http://home.att.net/~mleary/pennl13.htm This may be of interest.

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