What would a "solution" look like over history?

[davidjackson]

Are there times during the existence of the Voynich that such publication would be dangerous, suppressed, or otherwise result in no public disclosure?  Perhaps for similar reasons that the manuscript might have been encrypted?  But obviously not necessarily directly parallel, as I am looking for something in a different time period than during its creation.

Sure, Nazi Germany. Or 18th century Spain.
The danger of the document depends upon a) its contents and b) its surroundings.
If the contents are "dangerous" according to society, the scribe has to balance the danger of the content vs the danger of encryption. What sort of content would be more dangerous than making it illegible to the prosecutors? The imagination of the Inquisitor was probably worse than what was written down in cipher...