cover text

American  

noun

1. a text that conceals an encoded message.

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Example Sentences

The response began: As sirens blared with instructions to take cover, text messages went out to students, faculty and staff.

From Seattle Times

But Cachin’s proof depended on a critical assumption about the message hiding the secret, known as the cover text.

From Scientific American

In order to come up with a new message indistinguishable from the original, innocuous one, you have to create a perfect simulation of the cover text distribution, Cachin said.

From Scientific American

In the case of steganography, one of those distributions represents the cover text, and the other represents the ciphertext, which contains the hidden message.

From Scientific American

The first step would be to choose a cover text distribution — that is, a giant collection of possible words to use in the message, as would come from ChatGPT or a similar large language model — that would hide the ciphertext.

From Scientific American