OffByOne ·

Author: Connor Chang

i hid a qr inside a qr

Honestly very simple, i can’t believe we were the 6th solve

We were given hidden.png which contains a qr that rick rolls you (i’m so proud i didn’t fall for this)

Details

OffByOne implies lsb stego, opening up in gimp and turning on high contrast showed some stuff going on in the top row of pixels

The description immediately made me think this reshapes into a qr, so i checked if there was a perfect square, and yes, this weird yellow row continues for 841 pixels which is $29^2$

solve.py
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from PIL import Image

im = Image.open("./hidden.png")
width, height = im.size
pixels = im.load()

for x in range(0, 841):
    if x % 29 == 0:
        print()
    r, g, b = pixels[x, 0]
    if b == 255:
        print(1, end='')
    else:
        print(0, end='')