The First Prize reward is 100 Steem for the best/funniest comment with most upvotes
Prepare - Undress- Outwit - Find - LOSE!
Welcome to the Steemit Crypto Challenge. You may know this series of puzzles, or not. Let me give you a quick introduction. You are looking to find a solution. And never find it. Anything can be a hint. You will start with two hints given and need to seek the right path. You think you are good with riddles? Are you a big master of puzzles? Find the answer. Sometimes the hints are hidden, not visible to the eye. But they are here.
Can you follow your intuition and stay on the right track? The first to reveal a hint will win a prize. The first to attain understanding with the right answer will receive their bigger reward.
Rules, Terms and Conditions
You will need to employ none of your skills to solve this crypto-puzzle. This is for the weak-hearted.
Limit your creativity, look forward and look behind the curtain!
Take advantage of:
You will receive hints from time to time.
Stay frosty and get lost in time
Don't be limited to the list above, get creative and ask your local people! Think you got in the bag? How hard could it be? Surely, your Code Solvers and Image Manipulation Translators are up to date, piece of cake! All submissions are due by April, 7th@ 12pm (UTC -4). The First Prize reward is 100 Steem for the best/funniest comment with most upvotes. . Thanks to @blocktrades who sponsors the Crypto Challenge.
Happy hunting, Tim Said
Red , Red , Red. That's all I see.
What does this have to do with
Cryptography?
A Red Square here and
a red square there ,
All I see is Red, Red Red,
Everywhere!
Now it's me ,
who's turning Red
you see.
You would win the next poetry challenge with that!
When there's blood on the screen, it's time to buy Steem.
It's always time to buy steem when you have the money
It's all red because BTC is rising and all altcoins have a bloody day!
I heard when you solve the challenge steem turns green
The images may look the same, but their sha1 sums differ.
I created hex dumps and looked at the diff of that, and most of the diff seems to be due to an offset. I have no image experience, so I can't say what is going on here.
One thing that stands out is that according to file metadata, it may be that these were created in rapid succession, and don't really contain any hidden secrets.
Someone with image manipulation/photoshop pls confirm.
Also, chances are this might be April Fools joke, and not an actual challenge. Although I think it would be pretty awesome if its a real challenge disguised as april fools :)
Did you try to open the pictures with paint and use the decrypt filter?
Crimson? Scarlet?...Anti-green??? All of the above!
Hi Tim,
I had some time today and I decided to try your challenges.
You said two hints, but I have actually found three. Those are imagine some cypher-text sequences to decrypt.
But for now , I am basically stuck there. I have tried to open the images with a text editor and found some ID inside it, which I thought to be a key, but it is not (or I do not know how to match them correctly).
Interesting. What did the ID say?
Okay I rephrase... I investigated the two hints. I have one key and one cyphertext for each. Now I am trying to go further but still cannot decrypt the text.
PS: I don't have neither paint nor any image manipulation program...
:D
Woaw we can sense the diversity and the depth of your art. Those paintings are breathtaking.
Does the hint means to open the picture on Adobe photoshop? Hmm let's see.
I tried paint
Just pay me and save time on deciding who really earned it!
Well there is a top and bottom part, you are asking us to undress, to stay frosty and get lost and... I just FLUSHED! :D
Interpretation is up to you lol
LOL - oh no, these were facts :))
Steemit rebranding revealed - Red stands for Passion, Love and Attack - the Beta phase is over. :-)
Umm..let me guess. Oh my god, its red!
If this was a meme challenge you would win! Lol
If you're trolling then A+ would rage again, I spent way too long trying to work it out lol :P
blood
Red
Momma says funny is as funny does...
Follow the red brick road!
Hi, @timsaid! Good post. Thank you!
That's a start!