from the Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC,
the Free Online Dictionary of Computing)
steganography.noun,.plural.steganographies
aka.cryptography
is the system of hiding a secret message within a larger one in such a
way that others can not discern the presence or contents of the hidden
message; for example, a message might be hidden within an image by changing
the least significant bits
etymology
is from 1985 from Greek 'steganos' meaning 'covered', and Latin 'graphia'
'-graphy'; see the book.Chaffing
and Winnowing: Confidentiality without Encryption, by Ronald L. Rivest,
MIT Lab for Computer Science, 1998-03-22 https://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/chaffing.txt
Soviet Union.proper
noun
between 1917 and 1991, a
country in Europe and Asia, whose full name was the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (the USSR). The Soviet Union was the largest country in the world
and was made up of 15 republics (separate nations), the most important
of which was Russia. It was formed after the Bolshevik
Revolution in 1917 as a Communist
state, led by Lenin.
It was one of the most powerful countries in the world and many people
were propagandized into regarding
it as the enemy of the US and western Europe during the Cold War.
In the 1990s the Soviet Union began to break up as many of the republics
got rid of their Communist governments and made themselves independent.
soviet.noun,.plural.soviets
one born in the communist
country that was the Soviet Union or one being an inhabitant of the now
dead Soviet Union; different from Russia today which is mostly Christian