![]() Steganography is one of the oldest methods of concealing secret information and it’s believed to be first introduced back in the 5th century B.C in ancient Greece. Steganography is an ancient practice, an earlier version of it is coming from Ancient Greece when tyrants found ways to deliver hidden messages, to the American Revolutionary War when spies used to hide messages using the invisible link, to famous artists like Da Vinci who embedded secret meanings into his paintings. It’s different than cryptography where is the idea of encrypting a message that everyone knows has been sent but they can’t decrypt it to find out what it means, steganography on the other hand is the idea of hiding that the message is being sent at all. ![]() ![]() Steganography is the practice of hiding secret messages in otherwise non-secret mediums. The root “steganos” is Greek for “hidden/cover” and the root “graph” is Greek for “to write”, where the two roots together combine to give something close to “hidden writing”. to bypass security firewalls and scanners. Today’s digital world faces a rise in cyber-attacks and hackers are increasingly using steganography as a technique to trick internet users and bind malicious payloads in seemingly “safe” software, files, etc.
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