Re: VMs: NSU review of Rugg (2003)...

[Gordon Rugg <g.rugg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Dennis,

With six tables for the main text (plus perhaps one or two more for
labels, wildcards, etc), you'd probably need about two or three dozen
different grilles. The precise figure depends on the method you use, and
it's possible to turn the same grille upside down, or face down, etc.

More speculatively, I'd wondered whether the Neal keys might indicate
which table and grille was being used for a given chunk of text, if the
table and grille method was being used for reversible encoding (e.g.
"table 2, grille 6").

Best wishes,

Gordon

Dennis wrote:

>            You've said one would need about six tables to
> fabricate the whole VMs.  How many different grills
> would one need for this?
>
>         A thought for everyone.  In all the discussion about
> hoaxes, I'd remind everyone that the underlying text
> could be a well-formed but meaningless text in a known
> language.  "The slow brown lawn slept over the lazy
> quotient."  The texts in Trithemius' Steganographia
> were like this.  Computer-generated poetry can be like
> this.  A logical thing to do for a hoax, too.  How
> could we tell this from a meaningful text?
>
> Dennis
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