Secrecy (original) (raw)
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:
- Confidentiality
- Deception
- Espionage
- Military secret
- Secret sharing
- Security classification
- Surprise
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