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Secrecy
Secrecy
is hiding information from others.
Topics for an article on secrecy
Animals
generally endeavor to conceal the location of their
den[?]
or
nest
from
predators[?]
.
Governments
and
corporations
often attempt to conceal
information
about their operations from other governments.
Preservation of secrets in one of the goals of
information security
.
Secret keys
are essential in most
cryptography
, which in turn has as its goal the hiding of secrets.
Information hiding
is a design principle in much
software engineering
.
Keeping one's strategy secret is important in many aspects of
game theory
Secret societies
-- why keep membership a secret? why not?
See also:
Deception
Espionage
Secret sharing[?]
Confidentiality[?]
Security classification
References:
Bruce Schneier
,
Secrets and Lies
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