Re: VMs: A cryptological assault on Strong's decryption...

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello John,

> How much prove you wont I do not know but please
> consider the following.
> 
>   1.. I published VMs alphabet with equivalent
> English and Ukrainian
> (Cyrillic) alphabets.
>   2.. I stated the language in which VMs is written.
>   3.. In my Home Page I give 5 steps that can be
> used to read VMs. I do not
> use the steps any more but in the beginning they
> were handy.
>   4.. To the best of my ability I tried to show how
> the letters known as
> "execution tools-gallows" was constructed.

You have certainly explained your method in your
book, so this 'criterium' for a successful
solution is fulfilled.
I don't know old Ukrainian, so I cannot judge
if your plaintext is sensible. The problem is,
however, that we cannot be sure whether you are
really reconstructing a valid original text,
or you can obtain text because there is always
enough freedom in selecting vowels.

>   6.. I stated before and I will do it again. I do
> not encourage any one to
> believe me. But, I wont you to check my solution and
> method and prove or
> disprove my claim. But, so far you disprove is based
> on your believe rather
> than facts.

Whether the evidence is more 'belief' or 'proof' I
don't know. Perhaps it is so, but this is what
makes me skeptical:

- there is no explanation in your theory why the
  Voynich MS words follow the patterns explained
  by Jorge Stolfi (or even Currier's observations)
- the label words, which do not follow Zipf
  law like the main text, are still used to make
  sentences

The first point above could be checked if any
other plaintext from that time period were
available.
The next two points are a bit more 'subjective'.

- the text you generate does not seem particuarly
  meaningful or important enough for such encryption
- the strange drawings, which should have taken
  a bit effort to make, are not at all explained.

Best wishes,
           Rene


		
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