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I hope this thread will raise concentrated attention, so that no multiple threads about the same subject would pop up.
The following excerpt is from the bluff skill description:
Secret Messages: You can use Bluff to pass hidden messages
to another character without others understanding your
true meaning. The DC of this check is 15 for simple messages
and 20 for complex messages. If you are successful, the
target automatically understands you, assuming you are
speaking in a language that it understands. If your check
fails by 5 or more, you deliver the wrong message. Other
creatures that hear the message can decipher the message
by succeeding at an opposed Bluff check.
I see a problem with this. It suggests that the observer just somehow managed to understand you. Try that in real life. It just doesn't work that way. And since language is mentioned there, I'm assuming the secret message implies reading lips.
A sense motive check would be appropriate. Though then you'd have to think why to roll a bluff check, or how to be trained in delivering secret messages. I don't have a decent suggestion to this at the time, maybe you have?