http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22975809

Keywords and Co-Occurrence Patterns in the Voynich Manuscript: An Information-Theoretic Analysis
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Ad … ne.0066344

Very interesting paper; thanks for posting this.

http://www.news.com.au/business/worklif … 6670870626

But the maths problem – which involves infinite sums, integrals, complicated trigonometry and imaginary numbers – doesn’t produce the RAAF recruitment phone number because of typos within the copy.

A breakthrough in the Voynich Manuscript? I am interested but still skeptical at this point.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-be … s-26198471

Just as so many people have "solved" Zodiac’s 340 cipher, the same can be said of the Voynich. Here are some of those:

http://www.ciphermysteries.com/the-voyn … h-theories

I have a criteria I follow on solutions. If any cipher is "solved" by one person, but it is "him and his solution against the world" I tend to ignore it as rubbish.
If the solution has at least one supporter, who hopefully knows a bit about the subject, then it is worth a look.
If it has two or more supporters, BOTH of whom know the subject, and both agree, then it really should be taken seriously.

Sadly, though, all I ever tend to see is the "one against the world" type. If a person has a solution to an unknown cipher/code, but is unable to find a single person
on the entire planet to agree with them, or confirm their work, I personally have a hard time taking it seriously.

-glurk

Just as so many people have "solved" Zodiac’s 340 cipher, the same can be said of the Voynich. Here are some of those:

http://www.ciphermysteries.com/the-voyn … h-theories

I have a criteria I follow on solutions. If any cipher is "solved" by one person, but it is "him and his solution against the world" I tend to ignore it as rubbish.
If the solution has at least one supporter, who hopefully knows a bit about the subject, then it is worth a look.
If it has two or more supporters, BOTH of whom know the subject, and both agree, then it really should be taken seriously.

Sadly, though, all I ever tend to see is the "one against the world" type. If a person has a solution to an unknown cipher/code, but is unable to find a single person
on the entire planet to agree with them, or confirm their work, I personally have a hard time taking it seriously.

-glurk

Since I know nothing about cipher solving, I wait until one or more of you cipher guys perk up then I might take a look!

Ah, but if you said you’d solved it, Glurk, we’d all believe you.

BTW I still think the Voynich is a pattern-and-dye book for seamstresses to make shirts and ruff collars from.
I’m still waiting for someone to notice that I’m right.
It’s just me against the world I tell you!

Even the Voynich has a Zodiac connection, with its charts that resemble Zodiacal constellations:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/68r.jpg

Cue the bizarre theories. Toss in a little JFK conspiracy and UFOlogy and you’ve got a book deal in the making.

A what? A constellation? Pah!
Google "elizabethan ruff" me old mate. That’s my bizarre theory. Didn’t I just say?

Hmm, you might be on to something. Those ruffs are clearly divinely inspired by the heavens!

True. they were a Godsend.
(I shall get my coat.)

I might have said this before … or at least I just thunk it.

There should be another Blackadder and Smithy can play Stephen Fry’s characters. That’s high praise BTW. On both sides because the American sense of humour/humor is wonderful. Ahhh interplay, are you ever boring?

The riddle of the Voynich Manuscript

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26881734

The puzzling – and thus far indecipherable – nature of an old manuscript has confounded some of the world’s greatest cryptologists. Is there truly a code to break, or is it all an elaborate hoax?

Here is a Voynich documentary that I came across. It’s not bad:

http://allmyvideos.net/3ae4ylw7s6z8

-glurk