Pronounced: SHOW-fuhr, noun
Notes: Yes, we all know the definition, but I’m including this for the interesting background
Yesterday’s word
The word steganography is “the art of practice of concealing a message, image, or file within another message, image, or file”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1500s (but see the comments)
Background / Comments
Our word came from the Greek word steganos (covered). It pretty much fell out of use in the early 1800s, as it was considered an archaic synonym of “cryptography”. However, the word was revived in the 1980s for the digital age.
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