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

[Gordon Rugg <g.rugg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Dan,

As I envisage it, the creator (regardless of whether it was a hoax or a code)
would prepare a batch of grilles. These grilles could be re-used with any
table, so project fatigue wouldn't affect this. Creating a table takes two or
three hours, and would probably be a welcome change from using a table, so
again there probably wouldn't be a problem there.

I don't think that the same page would involve all the tables and all the
grilles - at most, I was thinking of a couple of tables and several grilles, so
fatigue again wouldn't be much of an issue - it's the same amount of effort
whichever grille you use, and (depending on various practical issues) having
two tables live at once isn't a huge problem - more than two would be.

Best wishes,

Gordon

Dan Harms wrote:

> Pardon a non-cryptographer for leaping into the discussion, but I haven't
> seen this brought up yet.
>
> So we may have a scheme involving eight tables and two or three dozen
> Cardan grilles switched off multiple times in a single page, no?  If that's
> true, I think that after a certain point in the manuscript, project fatigue
> would have led the creator to switch off the tables and grilles less
> often.  Thus, assuming the MS. was written from beginning to end, we should
> see different textual characteristics at different points in the MS.
>
> I don't have the intellectual machinery to follow this idea through, but I
> thought I'd toss it out.
>
> Dan Harms
>
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