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<p>Fellow Cryptography Listers,</p>
<p>Those of you interested in historic codes and ciphers may wish <span style="font-size: 12pt;">to know that the codex of manuscript MS408 (Voynich) has been decrypted. A peer-reviewed paper is due to be formally published in a journal in 2019. </span></p>
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the meantime, three draft papers are available to freely download from the preprint linguistics website LingBuzz:</span></font></span></font></div>
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first paper explains the codex of the writing system and language: </span></font><a href="http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003737" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="LPlnk196176"><font size="3" face="Calibri,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/003737</span></font></a></span></font></div>
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