Preface
This book is a third edition and so that means more thanks for everyone. There is no doubt that I owe a debt of gratitude to the participants in the cypherpunks and coderpunks mailing lists. Their original contributions inspired me to write the first book and their continual curiosity makes it one of the best sources of information around.
Some newer mailing lists are more focused on the topic. The watermarking list and the stegano list both offer high quality discussions with a high signal-to-noise ratio. Other lists like the RISKS digest and Dave Farber's Interest People list helped contribute in unexpected ways. Of course, modern list-like web sites like Slashdot, Kuro5hin, and InfoAnarchy contributed by offering solid, moderated discussions that help the signal jump out of the noise. It is impossible to thank by name all of the members of the community who include plenty of solid information and deep thought in their high-quality postings.
The organizers of the Information Hiding Workshops brought some academic rigor to the area by sponsoring excellent workshops on the topic. The discipline of creating, editing, reviewing, presenting and publishing a manuscript advanced the state of the art in numerous ways. The collected papers published by Springer-Verlag are a great resource for anyone interested in the development of the field.
Some others have helped in other ways. Peter Neumann scanned the first manuscript and offered many good suggestions for improving it. Bruce Schneier was kind enough to give me an electronic version of the bibliography from his first book [Sch94]. I converted it into Bibtex format and used it for some of the references here. Ross Anderson's annotated bibliography on Information Hiding was also a great help.
Scott Craver, Frank Hartung, Deepa Kundur, Mike Sway, and three anonymous reviewers checked the second edition. Their comments helped fixed numerous errors and also provided many suggestions for improving the book.
The original book was originally published by AP Professional, a division of Harcourt-Brace that blended into Morgan Kaufmann. The team responsible for producing the first edition was: Chuck Glaser, Jeff Pepper, Mike Williams, Barbara Northcott, Don DeLand, Tom Ryan, Josh Mills, Gael Tannenbaum, and Dave Hannon.
The second edition would not exist without the vision and support of Tim Cox at Morgan Kaufmann. I would like to thank Tim and Stacie Pierce for all of their help and encouragement.
The third edition exists because Rick Adams, Gregory Chalson and Denise Penrose saw the value in the book and devoted their hard work and energy to bringing it to market again. Sherri Davidoff, Rakan El-Khalil, Philipp Gühring, Scott Guthery, J. Wren Hunt, John Marsh, Chris Peikert Leonard Popyack and Ray Wagner read portions of the book and provided invaluable help fixing the book.