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after upset I solved it
it didn't take much time as I thought

How have you solved it? I just opened it with the editor and saw the answer pretty much in the end of the file.

Regards

you got the easiest solution
for me I used prog for crypto called Cryptool
it's also useful for other algorithms

This is not the best stegano I've seen, at first I expected too much, then I've read the hint of already having the right tool on my computer, so I thought it's either some basic image manipulation or I should open the image with a text editor.

damn, first i open the file with a hex-editor - saw the link at the end, but there was nothing what help...
then i try to find the solution in the squares...nothing
next day - solved by opening with hex-edit again

Just opened it with PSP, played around with Histogram etc, then just watched Fileinfo and BINGO!

So what's the deal with the deviantart URL?

Omg. I found it with my max amazing. It's quite simple than I thought.

When I first started these challenges, I was on windows. Now, I'm on linux.

Strings for the win.

You must be shitting me. I used OS X preview to filter colors in the picture and look for patterns. What I didn't know was that this automatically saved the changes to the picture. When I later was on the right track the answer was gone from the file. I later spent a whole day afterwards printing out the pixel data as ascii characters in different configurations before I noticed that the picture I was working with was not the same as the original. 1 minute later I solved it. At least I now know how to python gif files.

BosseBL wrote:At least I now know how to python gif files.

See it as a warmup for the later challenges. You will have to extract single pixels for a few of them.

Hmm. Not really sure this was a steg challenge...

I spent so fucking long on this :<