Making The Case That Voynich Is A Hoax

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 30, 2003 @07:23PM from the exercise-for-the-reader dept.

DeadVulcan writes "The Voynich Manuscript, a mysterious book of uncertain age, is widely believed to be written either in an unknown language or a long-lost encryption scheme. Nature reports that computer scientist Gordon Rugg has demonstrated that it's possible to generate a text like the Voynich manuscript -- containing language-like regularities, despite being potentially meaningless -- using cryptographic techniques of the time. This lends some support to those who claim that the book is a hoax."

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Re:My 2 cents by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-30 19:41 · Score: 5, Informative

Translation from binary:
Ich denke sein vermutlich einen

Translation from German from binary:
I probably think its one
Google found me this by ElDuque · 2003-12-30 19:46 · Score: 5, Informative

In case you're wondering what it looks like

http://www.voynich.nu/