steg

S1T1E1G2
/stɛɡ/

verb

To conceal (data) by means of steganography.

UncommonScrabble 5

Meanings

steg1

verbsteg (third-person singular simple present stegs, present participle stegging, simple past and past participle stegged)

present singular third person stegs · participle present stegging · participle past stegged · past stegged

  1. informaltransitiveTo conceal (data) by means of steganography.

    Another project being worked on is stegging banned religious books from every language and putting them on the web.

    2002, the Pull, “getting started”, in alt.fan.cult-dead-cow (Usenet)
    3 more examples

    Stego rasterizes the image, then stegs data into the least significant bit (or LSB) of each of the RGB color values.

    1994, Virtual Bob, “Crypto Maniac”, in comp.sys.mac.programmer (Usenet)

    It has become an article of faith that bin Laden and his associates routinely communicate through stegged messages posted on pornographic Web sites.

    2004, David Clarke, Technology and terrorism

    Sounds like nonsense to me - if you're going to pass stegged files there's plenty of anonymous dropfile sites, no need to use CP facilities which are likely to be subject to extra law enforcement, surveillance and site takedowns etc.

    2008, Steve Walker, “Sick evil perverted pedos now helping terrorists.”, in uk.legal (Usenet)

steg2

nounsteg (plural stegs)

plural stegs · alternative stag

  1. obsoleteA gander.

    […]the males [geese] (Gander or Steg)

    1809, Thomas Bewick, History of British Birds

Origin

steg · noun

  1. Proto-Germanic*staggijaz
  2. Old Norsesteggr
  3. Middle Englishsteg
  4. Englishsteg

From Middle English steg, from Old Norse steggr, a word for the male of several animals, from Proto-Germanic *staggijaz. Compare stag.

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