Terms of Use

Last updated June 27, 2026

By using Cryptale, you agree to these terms. If you don't, please don't use it. (We'll keep it short and human.)

What Cryptale is

A playful tool that tucks an optionally-encrypted message inside natural-looking, AI-generated text, and pulls it back out again. It's meant for personal, lawful, good-natured use.

Please don't

Use Cryptale for anything illegal, harmful, harassing, or meant to deceive people to their detriment.
Hammer the service, try to break it, or work around its rate limits.

About the "encryption" (please read)

Cryptale's encryption is casual-grade — deliberately lightweight (a 64-bit authentication tag and salt) so the cover stories stay short. It's perfect for fun, private notes, and low-stakes secrets. It is not meant to protect high-value, sensitive, or safety-critical information, and we make no promise that a determined adversary can't break or detect it. For anything serious, use real, audited encryption.

Decoding needs the exact, unedited cover text plus the same style and password. Change a single character and the secret is gone — we can't recover it for you.

No warranty, no liability

Cryptale is provided "as is," without warranties of any kind. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the maker isn't liable for any loss or damage arising from its use — including any secret that's exposed, lost, or never delivered.

Availability

This is a personal instance with no uptime guarantee. It may be slow, rate-limited, or offline at any time, and it may change or vanish without notice.

Changes

These terms may change; continuing to use Cryptale means you accept the current version.