So I've been trying to solve this Riddle called "Phage is Spreading.."
To complete stage one is an achievement.
To complete the test is talent.
Talent will be rewarded.
Good luck.
-Phage
Images given:
What I tried was decrypt the second Image using a QR-Code decoder.
This is what I got:
01011000 01010100 01011001 01000101 01100111 00111000 01011010 01010110 00110100 01100100 01110100 01110111 01110110 01111001 01101001 01100101 01010000 01001011 00101111 01111010 01110001 01011001 00110111 01000001 01010000 01000101 00110100 01111001 01100011 01010110 01000100 01110001 01100101 01001000 01001000 01101101 01110110 01101001 01101101 01100001 01010110 00110100 01101011 00111101
Welcome to the Phage Test. Key is the Key to Success.
Good luck.
-Phage
I took the binary values and it gives me the following hash:
XTYEg8ZV4dtwvyiePK/zqY7APE4ycVDqeHHmvimaV4k=
If you take the base64 string and use 128-bit AES decryption with the code Key
then you get the following ASCII string:
a6086de16e0c4476af46d773cd0342be
Now I'm not sure what I should do with this string. I believe the AES decrypted result is consistent with MD5 length, but I'm not sure.
Maybe the clue hides within the first image given. But how should I use steganography to decrypt the code?
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. I knew it was a long shot, but that's an awesome looking string. $\endgroup$