Ethics & Privacy

Scientific Context

RookDuel Encode is a research artifact demonstrating high-capacity steganography in rule-constrained systems. It is published for educational purposes to validate the efficacy of structure-bound entropy. It is not a tool for evasion or illicit communication.

Substrate Preservation

Respect Public Infrastructure

While the PGNs generated are legal, they may be unusually long or complex. Do not flood public chess databases (like Lichess or Chess.com) with encoded games. Creating "junk" data on these platforms wastes community resources and storage. Use these PGNs for peer-to-peer transmission only.

Local Execution Boundary

Absolute Privacy Guarantee

This system operates on a client-side architecture. The encoding and decoding processes happen entirely within your browser.

Immutable Metadata & Security

The algorithm automatically embeds your Identity Binding You entered and Creation Date directly inside the PGN in an encrypted, immutable format.

Irreversible Generation: Once a PGN is generated, the embedded metadata and password cannot be changed. Any attempt to alter the file content will corrupt the cryptographic signature, rendering the data unreadable.

Authenticated Encryption: The internal message is protected using modern, widely accepted cryptographic primitives that ensure confidentiality and integrity under standard security assumptions.