VMs: Re: "Running code" -- I hope not...

["Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have already done alberti, modified Porta, Dee tables, pairs, triplets and
a whole heap of other stuff I haven't even talked about on list. The Alberti
is a definate no no. The Porta is possible if you are a contortionist. The
others show mixed results. I have however one trick up my sleve which I am
working on. The pair of words I recently posted show something that echoes
throughout the VMS if you look closely enough.

BTW In my own mind I have now killed dead the Strong method. Although as to
GC's method I have no comment as he had modified the method used by Strong.
This could be a good candidate for solution if he has done what I think he
has.

Jeff


----- Original Message -----
From: "Elmar Vogt" <elvogt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Voynich" <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 22 February 2004 20:22
Subject: VMs: "Running code" -- I hope not...


>
> Hi all,
>
> This afternoon I fiddled around a little with the idea of a "running
code".
>
> Essentially, I modelled a slightly alterated Alberti code wheel -- To
encode
> text, you've got a pointer on the rotable inner disk, which you put
beneath
> the current letter. Then you write down the character of the inner disk
> beneath the next letter from your source text, and subsequently move the
> pointer to this position, etc.
>
> The results are funny. Your encoded text is a list of relative positions
in
> your source, "jump forward 5 letters", "jump back 19", etc. (IIUC, you
could
> describe this "relative coding" also as a polyalphabetic autokey coding)
> These jumps appear to have completely random distributions (well, what'd
you
> expect?), and you get a binomial distribution for letter frequency in the
> coded text, ie whatever underlying structure you had is completely erased.
> (Not to mention making things even more difficult by employing a
scrambled,
> rather than a sorted alphabet on the Alberti wheel.)
>
> _If_ our author used this scheme, then "I've got a bad feeling about
this,"
> and I guess the text would be undecodable. Actually, I'm quite surprised
> nobody seems to have had this idea in period, while it's only a small step
> from the code wheel. (And to imagine that the bastard who encoded the VM
> perhaps just misunderstood the instructions...)
>
> But the good thing about it is that it doesn't look like this running code
> was the scheme employed with the VM. VM text looks far too orderly and
> highly repetitive, and letter frequency distribution doesn't seem to fit
either.
>
> I'll keep you informed if I gain any new insight. Perhaps I can come up
with
> an easy method to test a running matrix...
>
> Elmar
>
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>
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