Steganography, where "steganos" is Greek and stands for "hidden" or "covered," and "graph" stands for "to write", refers to the art and science of communicating in a way that hides the existence of communication. It differs from cryptography as in cryptography, there is visible information that cannot be understood without a key, whereas in steganography,... Continue Reading →
CRYPTOGRAPHY, ENCRYPTION AND ENCODING: LET US TACKLE THE MISUNDERSTANDINGS
Cyber-Taxonomy In order to clarify ideas, we shall start from the formal definition of these three fundamental components of Cybersecurity. The term cryptography came about during the 1650s with the meaning of “art of writing in secret characters” from Modern Latin. Encryption, instead, stands for the process used to convert simple readable data known as... Continue Reading →