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Naibbe with Greshko's own tables also fails as a generating procedure
The Naibbe cipher with Greshko's own tables, the strongest published cipher procedure, also misses the manuscript on 19 to 20 of 21 statistics in its pages and lines.
What it means
Most likelyunchanged
Part of itWhat procedure reproduces its statistics?
Most likely: each scribe ran the procedure in his own way
Most likelyunchanged
Answer this evidence bears onA published mechanical procedure produced it
Counts againstnone for, 2 against
Disputedunchanged
Next steps 2
1
Mechanism inference over a family of hand ciphers: unit (letter, pair, syllable, word), number of homophones and how they are chosen, spacing (plaintext, re-spaced, rule-based), codebook size, line layer. Fit by simulation-based inference (ABC or a neural posterior) on each section's training pages and check on held-out pages, to find which features the text requires rather than testing named ciphers one at a time.
~24 h
—not judged
2
Bound how much page clustering any letter-level homophonic cipher can keep as the homophone choice becomes more random; if the manuscript lies above the bound, that whole class is excluded at once.
~8 h
—not judged
Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes
Sources 2
Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). Naibbe with Greshko's own tables also fails as a generating procedure [Evidence EVD0DC7RCQHQEN8]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DC7RCQHQEN8
@misc{mysteriesdept_evd0dc7rcqhqen8,
title = {Naibbe with Greshko's own tables also fails as a generating procedure},
author = {{Mysteries Department}},
year = {2026},
note = {Evidence, catalog key EVD0DC7RCQHQEN8},
url = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DC7RCQHQEN8}
}