With Musical Cryptography, Composers Can Hide Messages in Their Melodies

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/musical-cryptography-codes.html

by rbanffy • 6 years ago

29 8 6 years ago

I think “steganography” is a more precise term for this than “cryptography”

eitland• 6 years ago

Here's a story about some real life steganography using guitar riffs to hide morse code in a pop song to message hostages:

https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/7/7483235/the-code-colombian...

(It has been on HN before but not recently I think.)

082349872349872• 6 years ago

I've failed to find it in either Leibniz

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/ads-00104781/document

or Napier (Rabdologiæ), but at some point I'd read a (seven-/eighteenth century) paper which explicitly called out steganography as an application of binary encodings.

alchemyromcom• 6 years ago

This might be a widely known secret by now, but here's an example of musician Aphex Twin hiding his face in a spectrogram of one of his songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9xMuPWAZW8

flycaliguy• 6 years ago

I've been saying it for years, audio files on minidisc are the safest way to travel.

rosstex• 6 years ago

How many years, exactly?

ralusek• 6 years ago

Expected the answer communicated through song.

rmrfstar• 6 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPuff

With Musical Cryptography, Composers Can Hide Messages in Their Melodies

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