Criteria, was Re: VMs: A cryptological assault ...

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Zitat von Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>:

> > ...
> 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.
> 

I checked out John's site, and if I understand correctly, then the 
sequence "Eye of my God" is translated to "oko i bosi je", which in return 
becomes condensed in the Voynich to "KBSJ", ie a mere four letters with not 
even word boundaries surviving intact. How one would want to unambiguously 
reconstruct plaintext from this is beyond me...

I wouldn't subscribe to John's method either, exactly because it introduces an 
encoding "bottleneck", which leaves you enough degrees of freedom to always 
reconstruct a legitimate text, even if the original plaintext was only garbage.

Perhaps we should introduce another criterion for a successful solution:

"*) The plaintext reconstruction must be reasonably unambiguous"?

Cheers,

   Elmar


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