[Cryptography] The Voynich Manuscript as a product of a mental health disorder

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Tue Jan 22 18:54:04 EST 2019


Ray Dillinger <bear at sonic.net> writes:

>Last I heard about it, some folks had shown that its written content is
>consistent with a method of producing a stream of gibberish (the content-free
>part of a stream  cipher message) shaped into a fairly language-consistent
>form using a Cardan Grille

Given that the Cardan Grille postdates the Voynich by 100-150 years, I think
this may be another case of people trying to see something where there isn't
anything...

Peter.


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