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CryptoNite CTF 2026
2 challenges with 2 published solutions between them. No writeups were ever filed against this event's listing, so its solutions were found in public repositories instead. Each link is pinned to the commit it was read from.
The event listingSteganography1
Find the payload hidden inside a carrier that looks ordinary. Bit planes, appended data, metadata, and audio spectrograms.
Solve it with:LSB steganography extractorPNG chunk analyzerAudio spectrogram and SSTV decoderZero-width character and text steganography decoderLearn: Steganography
Capture the flag
1 official solutionAlso written up in: sajjadium/ctf-archives
Forensics1
Recover something from a file, a capture, or a disk image - often from a part of it the format says is unused.
Solve it with:File type identifier by magic bytesMagic byte and file signature tablePCAP analyzer for CTF network forensicsEXIF metadata viewerLearn: File forensics and carvingLearn: Network forensics
Output
1 official solutionAlso written up in: sajjadium/ctf-archives