1/27/2024 0 Comments Outguess rebirthThis follows none of the original Sailor Moon canon plot lines a hundred percent, but it's close to the old anime's plot line. Currently three hundred thousand words, may possibly have twice that many words when I'm done. This part of the saga, or "book" as I call them, is long. In 2012, Cicada 3301 posted their first image on 4chan.The continuation of the saga started in - If you haven't read that one, read it before reading this, as several things which are mentioned in this story are things that happened in the first book of the saga. This was the first time they made contact with the world, and the first time they used the steganography program OutGuess. They were very literal when they said: “There is a message hidden in this image”. This line was the first hint 3301 gave to solvers, telling them that they were using steganography to hide information. You can read about how they got to these images in the ‘What Happened: 2012(part 1)” article. Looks like you can’t guess how to get the message out” was their way of hinting at the steganography program OutGuess. Without this hint, the solvers may not have found or used the program. OutGuess is one of many steganography applications.ĭeveloped in Germany in 1999, OutGuess is available under a BSD software license and is completely free for all users. If you are not Linux savvy and still want to play around with OutGuess, you can use a VM or you can boot most linux distros from a LiveUSB or LiveCD.įedora or Ubuntu might be the easiest to use with either of those options if you have no experience with Linux operating systems. Under certain circumstances, OutGuess is considered undetectable 1. However with 3301’s signature JPEGs with white text on a black background, you can find artifacts it produces very easily with visual inspection alone.ġ StegDetect is useless. It detects only OutGuess up to version 0.13. "For JPEG images, OutGuess preserves statistics based on frequency counts. Before embedding data into an image, OutGuess can determine the maximum message size that can be hidden while still being able to maintain statistics based on frequency counts." As a result, statistical tests based on frequency counts are unable to detect the presence of steganographic content. Outguess creates a new JPEG statistically equivalent to the one given as an input. When creating the new JPEG, the default compression is 75 and can be set using -p to a value between 75 and 100. Consequently, the compression level of an image may give a clue about the presence of outguess, but this is not enough to draw any conclusion. To run outguess, you need a linux operating system. While there are official executables for Windows operating systems, OutGuess rebirth doesn’t work with 3301’s JPEGs. If you are not linux savvy and still want to play around with OutGuess, you can use a VM or you can boot most linux distros from a LiveUSB or LiveCD. Fedora or Ubuntu might be the easiest to use with either of those options if you have no experience with the linux operating system. Installation directions are in the README file. To retrieve information from any of Cicada's images, open a terminal and type Run:īecause of a bug in GCC, you might have to run: To save you some time, unpack the file and cd into it. Outguess -r imagename.jpg messageoutput.For those of you still unfamiliar with the Cicada 3301 puzzle, it has been called “the most elaborate and mysterious puzzle of the internet age” by Metro, and is listed as one of the “Top 5 eeriest, unsolved mysteries of the Internet” by The Washington Post.
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