Any hint for not_art

No, not any luck at all… I will try something else…

anyone can throw out a hint for this one?
tried stego tools
tried changing colors.
still no success.
is there a chance we have to combine it with the art challenge image?

@w31rd0 said:
anyone can throw out a hint for this one?
tried stego tools
tried changing colors.
still no success.
is there a chance we have to combine it with the art challenge image?

I tried combining them and tried comparing differences but still no luck .
judging from the difficulty rating im afraid we have to debug …

So this is a stego challenge, how many different ways can a message be hidden in a picture?

@hmgh0st said:
So this is a stego challenge, how many different ways can a message be hidden in a picture?

i do not think that there is a good estimation for that.
looking into challenges here some can be really unique.
and may require different ways of processing until you figure out the way the flag is hidden

@hmgh0st said:
So this is a stego challenge, how many different ways can a message be hidden in a picture?

well it can be hidden within LSB and checked
steghide checked and it said the file format isnt supported
file command sais it is a PNG

what else can i check?

@McBlocked said:
well it can be hidden within LSB and checked

it could be hidden with LSB. I honestly haven’t solved it yet, but the idea had crossed my mind yesterday and I started digging into it. It could also not be hidden with LSB.

@w31rd0 said:

@hmgh0st said:
So this is a stego challenge, how many different ways can a message be hidden in a picture?

i do not think that there is a good estimation for that.
looking into challenges here some can be really unique.
and may require different ways of processing until you figure out the way the flag is hidden

This is also very much true. Also the question was rhetorical, but it makes you think and may turn up something else. I checked out two color-related programming langs, but they both turned up nothing. I moved to checking byte differences, which may result in google searches. Just throwing ideas around, trying to figure it out, myself.

from PIL import Image

:slight_smile:

@decart said:
from PIL import Image

:slight_smile:

Sounds good to me lol.

@hmgh0st said:

@decart said:
from PIL import Image

:slight_smile:

Sounds good to me lol.

It’s not like i’m gonna share the whole script :slight_smile: And that’s a reasonable hint to start :slight_smile:

@decart said:

@hmgh0st said:

@decart said:
from PIL import Image

:slight_smile:

Sounds good to me lol.

It’s not like i’m gonna share the whole script :slight_smile: And that’s a reasonable hint to start :slight_smile:

Not expecting that. Where’s the fun in sharing entire scripts?! lol. It’s a hint. A very vague one since this could be any number of image manipulating scripts, but it’s a hint. Enjoy the challenge, everyone!

Think in threes.

i got the some binary. but can’t decode. any one give some hint my path is correct or not.

I’m only almost there only that last step I think :flushed:

wow. this has probably been my favourite challenge

Please - can someone give me a hint. I’ve tried unraveling it - and looking at the RGB values. Rotating the RGB values… I’ve put it into every steg software I know about… What am I missing!? I’ve tried stereogramming the image. Inverting the image and overlaying it… ARHGHGHGHG.

I’m a bit stuck on this myself and would appreciate a nudge. I see the hints such as “think in threes” and the like, but I’ve been unable to discern anything meaningful from the RGB values. I’ve tried converting the values to and from different base encodings, and I’m just not getting anywhere. Am I overthinking it?

@opt1kz said:
I’m a bit stuck on this myself and would appreciate a nudge. I see the hints such as “think in threes” and the like, but I’ve been unable to discern anything meaningful from the RGB values. I’ve tried converting the values to and from different base encodings, and I’m just not getting anywhere. Am I overthinking it?

It took me a while to figure this challenge.
Using the RGB values you only get 3 different values, this is similar to a base. From there Check the min and max values you can get converting from that base to decimal. Once you see that number you’ll understand next step.

Got it!

Really fun challenge! Feel free to PM me for hints.