Polygraphia III: The Cipher that Pretends to Be an Artificial Language

Jürgen Hermes, 2022. Proceedings of the International Conference on the Voynich Manuscript 2022 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 3313).

Shows that Trithemius's Polygraphia III, a word-for-letter cipher of 1518, produces text that looks like an invented language, and measures it against the Voynich text.

Voynich ManuscriptArticleChecked against the original0

What it's used for here

The book and the cryptanalysis surveys use its measurements of word-for-letter tables as a comparison for the manuscript's word statistics.

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Reading Without a Key

The book, version 2.0

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3 methods surveys

Cryptanalysis, linguistics, encoding procedures

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Cite it

Hermes, J. (2022). Polygraphia III: The Cipher that Pretends to Be an Artificial Language. Proceedings of the International Conference on the Voynich Manuscript 2022 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 3313). https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3313/paper7.pdf

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  note = {Trithemius' word-for-letter tables measured against the manuscript}
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Hermes, Jürgen. “Polygraphia III: The Cipher that Pretends to Be an Artificial Language.” Proceedings of the International Conference on the Voynich Manuscript 2022 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 3313) (2022).