Re: VMs: John Dee tables a further thought

[steve ekwall <ekwall2@xxxxxxxx>]

Jeff :-) 

*YES* sounds correct (your *.* below)! 

But, you needn't have a huge KEY to do this .. actually the key is one 
alphbet and just _mirrored_ to the other side of 1/2 of the same 
folded piece of paper (vellum) ... thnk X/Y where X>Y until gallows 
then Y>X until next gallows ... IF you KNOW your ABC's n the language 
it's in, you HAVE THE KEY (simple!) 
 
best to you & yours
-=se=-
steve (Fold 'em, Hold 'em) ekwall :-) 

note:(above "Hold 'em" means (rotate your key page) but REbegin where 
your finger or placemark left off.(that is left the last TTT 
postition)))  actually it's very much like seeing KNIGHT moves on a 
CHESS board _before_ moving you need to think "L's" in chess - the VMS 
just uses _gallows_ to point to the chosen quadrant (next key of 
8) etc..

 Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 21:51:32 -0000
 From: Jeff <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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 Subject: VMs: John Dee tables a further thought
 
 If as I mentioned previously the tables were 6 x 4 this does not mean that
 it has to contain all the numbers from 1 to 24. it could have duplicates and
 only include say 1 to 21. the words could be read from the tables letter by
 letter and then substituted for the equivalent numbers. These 21 numbers
 would then reference a glyphset with each glyph representing a particular
 number. This way the same number would represent several different plaintext
 letters. As the encoder would have no need to decipher the text it would not
 matter. However it would completely foul up the statistical analysis.
 
 Jeff
 
 
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