History

The aboriginal recorded uses of steganography can be traced aback to 440 BC if Herodotus mentions two examples of steganography in his Histories.[2] Demaratus beatific a admonishing about a accessible advance to Greece by autograph it anon on the board abetment of a wax book afore applying its affair surface. Wax tablets were in accepted use again as reusable autograph surfaces, sometimes acclimated for shorthand.

In his plan "Polygraphiae" Johannes Trithemius developed his alleged "Ave-Maria-Cipher" with which one can adumbrate advice in a Latin acclaim of God. "Auctor Sapientissimus Conseruans Angelica Deferat Nobis Charitas Potentissimi Creatoris" for archetype contains the buried chat VICIPEDIA.[3]