55. Steganographic, adjective. In cryptography, a term used for any image, file, or piece of text that contains a hidden piece of communication. Unlike ciphers or codes, a steganographic message hides the fact that it is a message at all, providing total secrecy to the sender and recipient. Any object, if designed to do this, could convey significance: a letter written in invisible ink; a song that turns into a memo when played at a different frequency; a note scribbled beneath a postage stamp; a shopping list whose items represent a set of private meanings; a carefully crafted pattern of dots woven into a bead bracelet. This very photograph might hold another picture in its pixels. From Greek stegein, “to cover; to conceal” + graphia, “writing; a description of.” The problem is, you’ll never know what it means to search and not to find. Maybe you didn’t look hard enough. But maybe there was nothing there at all.

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55. Steganographic, adjective. In cryptography, a term used for any image, file, or piece of text that contains a hidden piece of communication. Unlike ciphers or codes, a steganographic message hides the fact that it is a message at all, providing total secrecy to the sender and recipient. Any object, if designed to do this, could convey significance: a letter written in invisible ink; a song that turns into a memo when played at a different frequency; a note scribbled beneath a postage stamp; a shopping list whose items represent a set of private meanings; a carefully crafted pattern of dots woven into a bead bracelet. This very photograph might hold another picture in its pixels.


From Greek stegein, “to cover; to conceal” + graphia, “writing; a description of.”


The problem is, you’ll never know what it means to search and not to find. Maybe you didn’t look hard enough. But maybe there was nothing there at all.

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