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Computing

by Yoshihide Igarashi, Tom Altman, Mariko Funada, Barbara Kamiyama
May 2014
Intermediate to advanced
350 pages
9h 55m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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Chapter 7
Secret Writing
inAncient Civilization
7.1 STEGANOGRAPHY
It is dicult to specify when secret writing started in ancient civilization.
Some of the earliest accounts of secret writing date back to Herodotus
(c.484–c. 425 BC), who in his text Histories describes the conict between
Greece and Persia in the h century BC. According to Histories, secret
writing by a Spartan saved Greece from being conquered by Xerxes I
(the Great) of Persia, who reigned from 485 to 465 BC. Herodotus was
an ancient Greek historian and was regarded as the Father of History in
Western culture. e Greek word historia passed into Latin and took on
its modern ...
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