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Helensburgh Puzzles #34 - Images II Mystery Cache

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MavEtJu: There is a time of coming, and there is a time of going.

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Hidden : 4/28/2017
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Helensburgh Puzzles is a series of puzzle caches placed around of the suburbs of Helensburgh, Stanwell Tops and Otford. There are 36 puzzle caches in total, placed in the shape of a puzzle piece. The puzzles are of varying difficulty to encourage to learn about puzzles, codes and how to solve them.

For planning purposes, please see the the Helensburgh Puzzles website.



Steganography (pronounced STEHG-uh-NAH-gruhf-ee, from Greek steganos, or "covered," and graphie, or "writing") is the hiding of a secret message within an ordinary message and the extraction of it at its destination.

Normally RGB encoded messages have 8 bits per colour channel: 0 to 255. If however the colour channels are using only 7 bits there will be no impact on the visual image quality and that last remaining bit can be used to hide data in. You will need 8 pixels for a byte of data, but in an 800x600 image you can hide 60,000 bytes that way.

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Chmmyr: Ghea hc gur pbagenfg. Be gur oevtugarff. Be obgu. Be qbja. Lbh pna hfr guvf jrofvgr uggc://jjj.yhancvp.pbz/ vs lbh qba'g unir npprff gb n cebcre vzntr rqvgvat cebtenz. Pbagnvare: Sbex bs gerr.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)