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I think “steganography” is a more precise term for this than “cryptography”
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y ago
I think “steganography” is a more precise term for this than “cryptography”
- eitland 6y agoHere's a story about some real life steganography using guitar riffs to hide morse code in a pop song to message hostages: https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/7/7483235/the-code-colombian-army-morsecode-hostages https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/7/7483235/the-code-colombian... (It has been on HN before but not recently I think.)
- 082349872349872 6y agoI've failed to find it in either Leibniz https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/ads-00104781/document https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/ads-00104781/document or Napier (Rabdologiæ), but at some point I'd read a (seven-/eighteenth century) paper which explicitly called out steganography as an application of binary encodings.