Secret Writing - Steganography
Created | Updated Apr 4, 2006
This article may never get finished, but I will try. It is currently under construction.
The art of secret writing has been around for centuries. Generals needed to send messages in war, and they obviously didn't want the enemy to read them, those in power have always needed to keep certain things secret from the general public, and teenage girls have always written diaries that they don't want their parents to be able to read.
There are two main branches of secret writing - Steganography (hidden) and Cryptography (scrambled).
The Guide already has several excellent articles on Cryptography, so this section shall be brief. Cryptography is the art of encrypting text so it can not be read by anyone that the sender doesn't want to read it. Only some one who knows the cipher used to encrypt the text and the key can decipher it and read it. Simple ciphers include the Ceaser shift and monoalphabetic ciphers. See other guide entries for more deatils on these.
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The art of secret writing has been around for centuries. Generals needed to send messages in war, and they obviously didn't want the enemy to read them, those in power have always needed to keep certain things secret from the general public, and teenage girls have always written diaries that they don't want their parents to be able to read.
There are two main branches of secret writing - Steganography (hidden) and Cryptography (scrambled).
The Guide already has several excellent articles on Cryptography, so this section shall be brief. Cryptography is the art of encrypting text so it can not be read by anyone that the sender doesn't want to read it. Only some one who knows the cipher used to encrypt the text and the key can decipher it and read it. Simple ciphers include the Ceaser shift and monoalphabetic ciphers. See other guide entries for more deatils on these.
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