stego meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

stego

adj

Etymology Clipping of various terms relating to steganography.

Computing, Cryptography, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Steganographic; relating to or hidden using steganography.

A stego text might become meaningless if words of the cover text are freely replaced to synonyms without considering the context.2013, Kazuhiro Kondo, Multimedia Information Hiding Technologies and Methodologies for Controlling Data, Hershey, P.A.: Information Science Reference, →ISBN, page 357, column 1:

noun

Etymology Clipping of various terms relating to steganography.

Computing, Cryptography, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Steganography.

Computing, Cryptography, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A secret message hidden using steganography.

One might use traditional steganalysis to find stegos and then identify the guilty actors.2020, Hanzhou Wu, “Unsupervised steganographer identification via clustering and outlier detection”, in Mahmoud Hassaballah, editor, Digital Media Steganography, London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 296:

noun

Etymology Clipping of stegosaurus.

Fantasy A stegosaurus.

First felt both happy and sad at the sight of the old stegosaurus. She thought of the time Mother had first brought her this way. She had growled at the giant stego, albeit from a safe distance.2017, Seth Chambers, Her Rule Would Always Last, →ISBN, page 44:

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