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light. Several stories in the Histories of Herodotus deal specifically with
methods of steganography (not cryptography). The Father of History tells
how one of the most important messages in the history of Western
civilization was transmitted secretly. It gave to the Greeks the crucial
information that Persia was planning to conquer them. According to
Herodotus,
The way they received the news was very remark-bale.
Demaratus, the son of Ariston, who was an exile in Persia, was
not, I imagine—and as is only natural to suppose—well disposed
toward the Spartans; so it is open to question whether what he did
was inspired by benevolence or malicious pleasure. Anyway, as
soon as news reached him at Susa that Xerxes had decided upon
the invasion of Greece, he felt that he must pass on the
information to Sparta. As the danger of discovery was great, there
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