Re: VMs: Baptista/Matteo Argenti's essays on crypto - RANT

["Philip Neal" <philipneal_vms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "PK#01" <pklist01@xxxxxxxxx>
> I don't really see any crypto of the times that would be able to produce
> something like the VMS. And I don't think it would fit into the mindset of
> the times to come up with something unique, something really new. Most of
> the crypto I see is just an extension af what came before (dwarfs on
> shoulders of giants ...). This seems to be the case way into the 1600 
> -1700.

I agree that the Voynich manuscript is not a nomenclator or polyalphabetic: 
I
never have thought so. On the other hand, figures such as Trithemius and
Francis Bacon devised original workable ciphers which were never actually 
used.
Equally, the Rugg theory, if true, involves considerable ingenuity: I only 
wonder
if it is not too sophisticated a method of deceiving a gullible man like 
Emperor
Rudolph.

Philip Neal

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