Steganography - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Steganography : \Steg`a*nog"ra*phy\, n. [Gr. ? covered (fr. ? to cover closely) _ -graphy.] The art of writing in cipher, or in characters which are not intelligible except to persons who have the key; cryptography.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Steganography :

Hiding a secret message within a larger one in such a way that others can not discern the presence or contents of the hidden message. For example, a message might be hidden within an image by changing the least significant bits to be the message bits.

[{Chaffing and Winnowing: Confidentiality without Encryption, Ronald L. Rivest, MIT Lab for Computer Science, 1998-03-22 http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/chaffing.txt)">(http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/chaffing.txt)].

(1998-07-13)

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Example Usage of Steganography
	tobypinder: @steveedson o_O, i don't know if the accomodation and hospitality dept. are big on their Steganography: might look into it :P
	jwgoerlich: @stevewerby No, but she loved idea when we talked over breakfast. Re: tell me she used Steganography to write her paper about Steganography.
	Lil_Ranger: There's cryptography, Steganography, password cracking, reconstruction of skype and msn communications not to mention email and web traffic!

Steganography - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Example Usage of Steganography