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Re: VMs: vms sentences

Hi Petr,

At 23:30 07/02/2004 +0100, Petr wrote: 
Personally - at the moment - I believe the VMS doesn't contain any cleartext
message because:
1) someone would have found it already

The VMs mantra -- absence of evidence doesn't mean evidence of absence. :-o

2) there is no encryption method (that I know of) in the period 1400 - 1600
that could produce a text like the VMS
3) there is no non-encryption-related "idea" in the mindset of the 1400 -
1600 that could produce a text like the VMS (artificial languages, world
models)

Correction - there is no *single* encryption method that would do it. If it *is* from this time, then my working hypothesis is (and has been for a long time) that it is a composite set of simple ciphers... transposition ciphers, verbose ciphers, code indices, etc. YMMV! :-)

4) it is - at the same time - too neat and too uncomprehensible
The cleartext manuscripts that I've seen until now are either:
- not-neat, complex AND THEREFORE incomprehensible (legal documents,
administration, notes, bad handwriting, lots of abbreviations)
- neat AND THEREFORE easily comprehensible (poetry, prayer, history).
As yet I've seen NO neat document that I couldn't read.

AFA anyone can tell, it's unique - so it's a bit difficult to generalise. :-)

Cheers, ....Nick Pelling.... 


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