Java Glossary : steganography

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steganography
The art of hiding information inside messages or pictures. For example, you might encode information in a picture by subtly varying the colours. You might hide information in the low order digits of a set of tree heights. The technque would normally be used to hide encrypted messages, especially when sending encrypted messages might be illegal.


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