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Record 1 2025-11-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Handwriting Analysis and Cryptography
  • Encryption and Decryption
  • IT Security
CONT

Unlike cryptography, which works to obscure content so it can't be understood, steganography's goal is to hide the fact that content exists at all by embedding it in something else.

CONT

The primary goal of steganography is to avoid the suspicion about any hidden message while maximizing the capacity of the cover object to conceal information.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Graphologie et cryptographie
  • Chiffrage et déchiffrage
  • Sécurité des TI
DEF

Technique consistant à dissimuler un message, que l'on désire transmettre confidentiellement, dans un ensemble de données d'apparence anodine (texte, image, son, etc.), de façon que sa présence soit imperceptible [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Grafología y criptografía
  • Criptografía y desciframiento
  • Seguridad de IT
CONT

[...] la esteganografía se puede definir como la ocultación de información en un canal encubierto con el propósito de prevenir la detección de un mensaje oculto.

CONT

Las marcas de agua son una forma de esteganografía, mecanismos para ocultar información en determinado soporte, y difieren de la criptografía en que el mensaje puede pasar desapercibido.

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Record 2 2007-03-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Copyright
  • Foreign Trade

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droits d'auteur
  • Commerce extérieur

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Derechos de autor
  • Comercio exterior
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