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stenographussy

Steganographic code review tool for detecting invisible attacks in source.

stenographussy is a code-review security tool focused on invisible or steganographic attacks hiding inside source code where plain-text review often fails.

Built With

PythonSecurityCode ReviewSteganography

Core Capabilities

Invisible attack detection

Targets source-level tricks that can survive casual review because the dangerous part is hidden in formatting, encoding, or visual ambiguity.

Review workflow fit

Works as a supplement to normal code review by focusing on a class of attacks that humans are particularly bad at spotting consistently.

Security-first framing

A good example of the Ussyverse tendency to take niche-but-real technical problems and turn them into explicit tools instead of blog-post warnings.

Threat model

Source code can lie visually. Hidden characters, deceptive glyphs, or steganographic tricks can produce behavior that is hard to catch in a normal review pass. stenographussy is aimed squarely at that gap.

Review stance

The tool complements normal code review by scanning for a class of attacks people miss easily under time pressure, especially when the dangerous part of the code is hidden in appearance rather than obvious syntax.

Example Use Cases

Pre-merge review hardening

Run it against incoming changes to catch homoglyph tricks, invisible characters, or visually deceptive edits before they slip through a fast review.

Audit suspicious repositories

Use it during supply-chain or internal security reviews when you need a second lens for source files that may contain encoded or presentation-layer attacks.

How To Approach It

There is no marketing wrapper here; the repo is the product. Start there if you want to see the detection strategy, threat coverage, and example findings.

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