# KuroLabs/stegcloak

Hide secrets with invisible characters in plain text securely using passwords 🧙🏻‍♂️⭐

Repository: https://github.com/KuroLabs/stegcloak
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/stegcloak
Homepage: https://stegcloak.surge.sh
Language: JavaScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: cryptography, steganography, compression, functional-programming, ramdajs, hacking-tool, security, hacking, javascript, privacy, security-tools, stego, cipher, infosec, hacking-tools, data-exfiltration
Last push: 2024-10-01T20:19:13+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2318, "days_push": 701, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3871, forks 248 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:27.786081+00:00)

## What it is
StegCloak is a pure JavaScript steganography module that hides secrets inside plain text using invisible zero-width unicode characters, encrypting with AES-256-CTR and compressing before embedding. It is available as an npm API module, a CLI, and a web interface.

## Use cases
- hide a secret message inside a tweet
- watermark strings invisibly
- embed invisible scripts in webpages
- covert communication over social media like WhatsApp or Telegram
- hide a link to a file inside cover text
- encrypt and conceal text with a password

## When to choose
- you need to hide short secrets in plain text that survives copy-paste across the web
- you want password-protected, encrypted text steganography in JavaScript
- you need both a CLI and a programmatic API

## When to avoid
- you need image or audio steganography rather than text
- you need guaranteed undetectability against active adversaries analyzing zero-width characters
- you need to hide large binary payloads directly rather than links

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: cryptography, compression, serialization, security, cli
- domain: security, privacy, developer-tools
- platform: cli, cross-platform
- tags: steganography, invisible-characters, zero-width-characters, text-hiding, watermarking, covert-communication, aes-256, hmac, natural-language-processing, nodejs, web

## Member repositories
- KuroLabs/stegcloak (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:27.786081+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:25:48.075110+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/KuroLabs/stegcloak (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:27.786081+00:00, sha 93412370185b)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/stegcloak (fetched 2026-08-29T09:20:17.457470+00:00, sha 47a861d2a501)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.