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Here are two files that have been enciphered with a method meant to replicate the VMS cipher. They are in the early stages of development and letter positions are somewhat arbitrary. They appear to adhere to the crust-mantle-core paradigm put forward by Jorge Stolfi. This may or may not be the case. However more research needs to be untertaken to determine this assumption one way or another.
Enciphered Latin sample. (First cipher tables)
Enciphered modern French. (early version of the cipher tables)
NEW: This is a file enciphered with the latest configuration of the cipher tables. Most of the crust and all of the core positions are now in place. The mantle positions will require further analysis. Once they are all in place a rearrangement of the plaintext assignments will be done to see if this really can mimic Voynichese.
Enciphered Latin sample. (Second cipher tables)
NEW: Latest output where the crust final characters have been allocated.
Enciphered Latin sample. (latest cipher tables)
The samples shown here are the result of combining the work of 3 individuals. Firstly Jon Grove who first showed the method for enciphering plaintext into a form resembling voynichese. Secondly the work of Jorge Stolfi and his crust-mantle-core paradigm. Especially his analysis of the hilly structure of VMS words. Last but not least is the work of Glen Claston and his ideas on the structure of the alphabets used. Without the work of these people none of this would have been possible.
The method shown here is in its early stages and more language analysis is necessary to complete the method. I am currently undertaking analysis of the Latin language to determine whether or not it may be the source plaintext language for the VMS. As this analysis progresses I will be able to recreate the structure of the VMS more accurately. The method will be fully written up and posted here once this analysis has been completed.
The direct collaborators that should be mentioned here for comleteness are Jon Grove, Larry Roux, Jan Hurych, Robert Teague, Pamela Richards and Jean-Yves Artero. They have all helped with research on the provenance of the VMS. The provenance document is expected to be completed sometime in February and will then be available to those on the VMS mailing list and the wider public.
The work shown here is not claimed to be definitive in any way. However it does merit further investigation. It is not yet a decipherment of the VMS but it could ultimately lead in that direction.
The original Voynich text generator tables. The work has moved on since this analysis was done and is not built on the autogeneration of voynich lookalike text that this method produces.