Cite

If you use the toolkit or its findings, please cite the software and the relevant preprint.

Install

pip install ms408

PyPI · source · CITATION.cff (GitHub's "Cite this repository" works directly).

Software

A permanent citable DOI is minted by Zenodo on the first release — it will appear here then.

@misc{ms408,
  author = {Walsh, Tim},
  title  = {MS408 --- a firewall-disciplined evaluator for Voynich-Manuscript hypotheses},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {Apache-2.0},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/DireLabs/ms408}}
}

Preprints

See the papers — the constraint-envelope study and the methods paper on adversarial self-correction. Each will carry its own arXiv DOI once posted.

Data note: if you use the bundled Naibbe example data, also cite Greshko (2025), The Naibbe cipher, Cryptologia, doi:10.1080/01611194.2025.2566408, per its source licence.