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Steganography Vs Cryptology


Title: @dooleyIntroductionRevolutionaryCipher2018 date: 2023-02-03 type: literature project:


tags:: #Cipher #atomic projects::

Dooley goes over the two distinct ways of hiding a message so no one other than the recipient receives it. The first is the idea of Steganography, which hides the existence of a message. Think of things like secret ink, and different fonts that make it so only the sender and recipient know that there is a message there. Cryptology would be the opposite of Steganography, leaving the message in plain sight, usually encoded in a way only the two parties on both ends know the code for. The term for the creation of a secret message is cryptology and the techniques to crack these secret messages is called cryptanalysis. The person who cryptanalyses text is called a cryptanalyst.


Citational Information

Dooley, J. 2018. History of Cryptography and Cryptanalysis. 2018. Available at https://books-scholarsportal-info.proxy.library.carleton.ca/en/read?id=/ebooks/ebooks4/springer4/2019-06-27/1/9783319904436 [Last accessed 29 January 2023].


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