A Pinch of Steganography

manuelhooks (71)in #cryptanalysis • 6 months ago (edited)

Steganography

Steganography is an advanced form of cryptography with its main aim being to hide a message and also hide the fact that there is a hidden message.

This is often achived by concealing a message in a seemingly innocuous medium, such as another message, a public medium, an art work on display or a popular song. These mediums serve as a disguise, making it difficult to detect the hidden message, even when it's in plain sight.

An Example of Steganography

Anyone reading the post titled The Making of a Word Search Puzzle in the steem kids community may appreciate the informative nature of the post, and may learn how to make a word search puzzle with out knowing that deep in that same puzzle lies another set of data or information.

While the reader is misdirected to look for words like:

Good	Rich	Best	Well
Sola	Ewe	Loo	Lax
Lose	Nail	Gale	Jew

The real content hidden in the Word search puzzles remains obscured in plain sight. Have you seen the 15 steemit user names embedded in this word search puzzle?

Participation Guide

This contest is open to all steemian.
Each username you find comes with a one steem reward. So, up for grasp is 15 steem. The first to mention a user name gets the reward for that user name.
Make your entry as comment in the comment section of this post.
Every comment must carry only one username and you can make multiple comments.
Comment format: use @ followd by the user name you found and an A1 refrence style or an R1C1 reference style could be used to indicate where you found the user name.
E.g. the word tax is located at A4:C4.
You can also bring up the grid and encircle the username

E.g.

@tax

It is understood that unintended usernames like @tax could be seen, note that the steemians here are active users of the platform and the list username is @???? (With 4 characters)

Please invite some friends to participate.

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