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語源 1

Shortening of steganography.

動詞

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

1. (transitive, informal) To conceal (data) by means of steganography.
   • 1994, Virtual Bob, “Crypto Maniac”, in comp.sys.mac.programmer (Usenet):

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

   • 2002, the Pull, “getting started”, in alt.fan.cult-dead-cow (Usenet):

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

   • 2004, David Clarke, Technology and terrorism:

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

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

     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.

語源 2

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

別の表記

• stag

名詞

steg (plural stegs)

1. (obsolete) A gander.
   • 1809, Thomas Bewick, History of British Birds:

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

参照

• “steg”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• -gest, Gest, Gets, gest, gest-, gets, tegs