The word "steganography" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that refers to the practice of concealing a message, file, image, or video within another message, file, image, or video. For example: "The criminal mastermind had employed steganography to hide secret messages within innocuous photographs."
The three, Wojciech Mazurczyk, Maciej Karas and Krzysztof Szczypiorski, who all work at the Warsaw University of Technology, made use of a technique called steganography, cryptography's lesser-known, less glamorous cousin.
Whereas cryptography relies on the brute force of mathematics to make messages unreadable, steganography relies on stealth and cunning to make them undetectable, by hiding them within other, innocent communications.
Which is the purpose of Collage, a system devised by Nick Feamster and his colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology.Traditional steganography hides its message as, say, every 20th word in a letter, or as the colour of every hundredth pixel in an electronic image.
Song lyrics and their ilk on Facebook statuses indicate "social steganography".
The hybrid cop-intel lingo (using Patriot Act as a verb) and new technologies (like digital steganography) provide a sense of insiderdom.
She says they are now often seeking power over their environment through misdirection, such as continually making and destroying Facebook accounts, or steganography, a cryptographic term for hiding things in plain sight by obscuring their true meaning.
Once decrypted, the agency's online puzzle, through a process experts call steganography, yields a hidden message in the form of a keyword.
They also used steganography, the technique of using highly secret software to insert coded messages into images on ordinary Web sites.
Boyd uses the term "social steganography" to describe the practice of more than 50% of young people who use in-jokes and obscure references to effectively encode what they post.
Some tweets are clearly difficult to decode, making the reader aware that a message is being hidden; others can be understood as "social steganography" where the message is hidden in "plain sight".
Bezrukov and Vavilova communicated with the SVR using digital steganography: they would post images online that contained messages hidden in the pixels, encoded using an algorithm written for them by the SVR.
