VMs: Verbose cipher...

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dennis,

At 00:24 07/04/2004 -0500, Dennis wrote:
> As the originator of the verbose cipher concept, I'd sure like to hear 
> more from you or Nick.  What are those frequently occurring, if it's not 
> too much trouble and you feel confident enough in the identification?

I have a high degree of confidence that <ch>, <sh>, <ee>, <qo>, <dy>, <ol>, 
<or>, <os> (rare) and <al> code for single tokens (as do all the 
struck-through gallows). I also wouldn't be surprised if <cho> turned out 
to be a separate token - basically, I'm suspicious of all occurrences of <o>.

However, I suspect that <o> + <gallows> performs quite a different function 
- if (double leg) gallows characters in the text de-serialise (single-leg 
gallows-surrounded) Neal keys (ie, untranspose them, character at a time), 
then possibly <o> + <gallows> means "re-use the last token/letter pulled 
from the Neal key".

Still, it's entirely possible that the various <o> + <gallows> pairs are 
simply verbose cipher tokens: this was my original (pure-pair) hypothesis, 
though I've moved away from it more recently.

I also am reasonably convinced (like Tiltman was) that <a[i][i][i]n> and 
<a[i][i][i]r> are some kind of steganographic Roman numerals - there have 
to be numbers *somewhere* (if not everywhere) in a document of this size, 
and I can't see any better candidates than these.

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


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