Re: VMs: Gallows mega-theory...

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Here's my gallows mega-theory, which I've been
> piecing together for the 
> last 6 months. Any suggestions as to how this might
> be turned into testable 
> hypotheses will be gratefully received! :-)

<snipped>

Some things which any theory will need to explain:
= Eva-k and Eva-t can usually be interchanged, in
  the sense that a swap will usually lead to another
  valid VMs word.
= Eva-f and Eva-p can usually not be changed into
  Eva-k or Eva-f, then leading to a valid word.
= ckh and cth look like k and t written 'through'
  a ch symbol. It is not automatically clear that
  there should be a relation between them, but it
  is interesting to note that cth and ckh can be
  interchanged in the same manner as t and k.

Another thing you can test is whether the type
of multiple-alphabet cipher you propose can turn
a regular (say) Italian or Latin text into something
with the patterns of VMs. My opinion is that this
is more or less the opposite of what one would expect
to see (and the opposite of the aim of early 
encryption systems) so this will be a very hard test.

> What do you think? :-)

To be honest, I don't think so :-/
To be even more honest, I can't come up with
anything more promising myself right now....

All the best, Rene

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