stego

English

Etymology 1

Clipping of various terms relating to steganography.

Adjective

stego (not comparable)

1. (cryptography) Steganographic; relating to or hidden using steganography.
   • 2013, Kazuhiro Kondo, Multimedia Information Hiding Technologies and Methodologies for Controlling Data, Hershey, P.A.: Information Science Reference, →ISBN, page 357, column 1:

     A stego text might become meaningless if words of the cover text are freely replaced to synonyms without considering the context.

Noun

stego (countable and uncountable, plural stegos)

1. (uncountable, cryptography) Steganography.
2. (countable, cryptography) A secret message hidden using steganography.
   • 2020, Hanzhou Wu, “Unsupervised steganographer identification via clustering and outlier detection”, in Mahmoud Hassaballah, editor, Digital Media Steganography, London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 296:

     One might use traditional steganalysis to find stegos and then identify the guilty actors.

Etymology 2

Clipping of stegosaurus.

Noun

stego (plural stegos)

1. (fantasy) A stegosaurus.
   • 2017, Seth Chambers, Her Rule Would Always Last, →ISBN, page 44:

     First felt both happy and sad at the sight of the old stegosaurus. She thought of the time Mother had first brought her this way. She had growled at the giant stego, albeit from a safe distance.

Swedish

Verb

stego

1. (pre-1940) plural past indicative of stiga