Peter Wayner
Encyclopedia
Peter Wayner is a writer known for his books on technology and his writing for publications like The New York Times
, InfoWorld
, and Wired magazine
. His work on mimic function
s, a camouflaging technique for encoding data so it takes on the statistical characteristics of other information, is an example of steganography
.
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, InfoWorld
InfoWorld
InfoWorld is an information technology online media and events business operating under the umbrella of InfoWorld Media Group, a division of IDG...
, and Wired magazine
Wired (magazine)
Wired is a full-color monthly American magazine and on-line periodical, published since January 1993, that reports on how new and developing technology affects culture, the economy, and politics...
. His work on mimic function
Mimic function
A mimic function changes a file A so it assumes the statistical properties of another file B. That is, if p is the probability of some substring t occurring in A, then a mimic function f, recodes A so that p approximates p for all strings t of length less than some n...
s, a camouflaging technique for encoding data so it takes on the statistical characteristics of other information, is an example of steganography
Steganography
Steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one, apart from the sender and intended recipient, suspects the existence of the message, a form of security through obscurity...
.