Peter Wayner

Peter Wayner is a writer known for his books on technology and his writing for publications like The New York Times, InfoWorld, and Wired magazine. His work on mimic functions, a camouflaging technique for encoding data so it takes on the statistical characteristics of other information, is an example of steganography.

Bibliography (selected)

• Wayner, Peter (2008). Disappearing Cryptography -- A book on steganography, information hiding, watermarking and other techniques for disguising information. Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 978-0123744791. http://www.wayner.org/node/13. Retrieved 2009-12-12. 
• Wayner, Peter (2003). Policing Online Games -- How mathematics can make online games more honest and fair. Flyzone Press. ISBN 978-0967584423. http://www.wayner.org/node/12. Retrieved 2009-12-12. 
• Wayner, Peter (2002). Translucent Databases -- How to create databases that answer questions without holding any information inside them. Most of the techniques involve applying a one-way function to personal data. Flyzone Sr Llc. ISBN 978-0967584416. http://www.wayner.org/node/46. Retrieved 2009-12-12. 
• Wayner, Peter. Free for All -- A history and manifesto for open source software circa 2000. http://www.wayner.org/node/5. Retrieved 2009-12-12. 
• Wayner, Peter (1999). Compression Algorithms for Real Programmers (The For Real Programmers Series). Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 978-0127887746. 
• Wayner, Peter (1995). Agents Unleashed: A Public Domain Look at Agent Technology. Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 978-0127387659.