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I’m new to steganography and have been making an attempt to determine this one out however some extra assist can be appreciated. There is that this picture right here:

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It supposedly has a hidden message in it that ought to result in the personal key to an Ethereum pockets that has 1 Eth in it. A personal key for an ethereum pockets is a 64 hex character string. If anybody helps determine this puzzle out I don’t care to have the prize, I’ve simply spent many hours on this with no luck and want to know how you can clear up it.

Here is what I do know to date:

  1. Running file on the picture yields this: PNG picture information, 1600 x 1105, 8-bit grey+alpha, non-interlaced. So it has no RGB values, simply grey and alpha.
  2. There are solely 434 pixels with an alpha worth lower than 255. I’m fairly certain that is the place the answer lies however after this I’ve no luck.
  3. I’ve tried numerous various things starting from taking part in with the bits for each the grey and alpha values for the pixels which have an alpha < 255. Converting them to ASCII and hex, reversing them, solely wanting in any case vital bit.

At this level I’m at a loss. Any concepts?

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