Steganography
nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026
The art and science of communicating in a way that hides the existence of the communication. For example, a child pornography image can be hidden inside another graphic image file, audio file, or other file format.
NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2
Senses
SANS Glossary of Security Terms
Methods of hiding the existence of a message or other data. This is different than cryptography, which hides the meaning of a message but does not hide the message itself. An example of a steganographic method is "invisible" ink.
NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 2sense 2 pending review
The art, science, and practice of communicating in a way that hides the existence of the communication.
Wordset Dictionary
act of writing in code or cipher
Classifications
Entity Type
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Sensitivity
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Information Class
—60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants
- synonym
- cryptography
- plural
- Steganographies
- possessive
- Steganography's
- pluralpossessive
- Steganographies'