The Voynich manuscript: evidence of the hoax hypothesis

Andreas Schinner, 2007. Cryptologia 31(2): 95–107.

Analyses the Voynich text with random-walk mapping and repetition statistics and concludes that it looks more like the output of a stochastic process than encrypted language.

Voynich ManuscriptArticledoi: 10.1080/01611190601133539Checked against the original0

What it's used for here

The book cites it in the case for meaningless text; the procedure-fingerprinting survey cites it as a critique of Rugg's grille.

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Cite it

Schinner, A. (2007). The Voynich manuscript: evidence of the hoax hypothesis. Cryptologia, 31(2), 95–107. https://doi.org/10.1080/01611190601133539

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Schinner, Andreas. “The Voynich manuscript: evidence of the hoax hypothesis.” Cryptologia 31, no. 2 (2007): 95–107. https://doi.org/10.1080/01611190601133539.