Steganography

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  • noun. The deliberate concealment of data within other data, as by embedding digitized text in a digitized image.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The art of writing in cipher, or in characters which are not intelligible except to the persons who correspond with each other; cryptography.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The art of writing in cipher, or in characters which are not intelligible except to persons who have the key; cryptography.
  • noun. The branch of cryptography in which messages are hidden inside other messages; -- used commonly for the process of hiding messages inside a computerized image file, as for example hiding the name and copyright notice of the owner of an image as protection against violation of the copyright.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The practice of hiding messages, so that the presence of the message itself is hidden, often by writing them in places where they may not be found.
  • noun. Specifically: the use of small files in computers to communicate secret information.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. act of writing in code or cipher
    • Word Usage
    "If done correctly, and cleverly, detecting steganography is extremely difficult."
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