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Peter Wayner is a writer known for his books on technology and his writing in mainstream publications including The New York Times, InfoWorld,[1] 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.[2]

Bibliography (selected)

  • Wayner, Peter (2008). Disappearing Cryptography -- A book on steganography, information hiding, watermarking and other techniques for disguising information. Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 978-0-12-374479-1. Retrieved 2009-12-12.
  • Wayner, Peter (2003). Policing Online Games -- How mathematics can make online games more honest and fair. Flyzone Press. ISBN 978-0-9675844-2-3. 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 978-0-9675844-1-6. Retrieved 2009-12-12.
  • Wayner, Peter (2000). Free for All: How LINUX and the Free Software Movement Undercut the High-Tech Titans. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-662050-3. Retrieved 2015-08-18.
  • Wayner, Peter (1999). Compression Algorithms for Real Programmers (The For Real Programmers Series). Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 978-0-12-788774-6.
  • Wayner, Peter (1995). Agents Unleashed: A Public Domain Look at Agent Technology. Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 978-0-12-738765-9.
  • Wayner, Peter (2013). Future Ride: 80 Ways the Self-Driving, Autonomous Car Will Change Everything from Buying Groceries to Teen Romance to Surviving a Hurricane to Turning Ten to Having a Heart Attack to Building a Dream Home to Simple Getting from Here to There. ISBN 1484123336.

References

  1. ^ Author Bio , InfoWorld, Nov. 22, 2010.
  2. ^ Signals in the Noise by Joab Jackson, Baltimore City Paper, June 26, 2002.