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In the newsVoynich Manuscript·Nov 2025

[A fifteenth-century hand cipher can produce Voynich-like text](https://doi.org/10.1080/01611194.2025.2566408)

Michael Greshko shows that a cipher using dice and playing cards, practical in the 1400s, yields text with many of the manuscript's statistics.

Cryptologia · Michael Greshko