Re: VMs: Mixtures of languages in the VMS

["Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nick Pelling incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote


> Hi Rene,
>
> At 06:40 13/11/2003 -0800, Rene Zandbergen wrote:
> >Jeff isn't yet ready to explain his solution,
> >but based upon the differences between one
> >proposed plaintext and the next, it looks like
> >a choatic system as well, so 'tuning' it in order
> >to converge to a real plaintext really cannot work,
> >in my opinion.
>
> Jeff's approach posits a different substitution alphabet for each
preceding
> EVA letter. However, ATM he appears to have substantially more information
> encoded in his set of tables than in his plaintext, which (IMO) would seem
> to rather defeat the object of the exercise. :-o
>
> Structurally, though, this may well be one possible route to a solution -
> though probably not while it relies on EVA as its underlying
transcription. :-(
>
> Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....
>

All lowercase letters are fillers for positions not occupied yet by a
presumed known character and so there is more information in that respect.

Jeff


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