Hi Community,
I didn't new where to post... After reading, reading and over reading thies thread, in which I tried to understand ppl meanings and problems I wanted to ask the following:
Would it be a good idea to tell ppl what kind of programs are needed/required to solve some challs? For example there are some challs that require a good knowledge of PSP or PS and so on... what do you think of?

Allmost every stegano challenge can be solved by use of (not solved with) even the most basic photo editor.
So this means you could add PS and PSP everywhere. So I don't think this will help you much.

BaRa

I have to agree with many posters about the stegano's. If I can't see what to do in the first ten minutes then I leave them alone. CEP was the most interesting I have seen, it was obvious what to do and I enjoyed solving it. Too many of them are just peculiar puzzles though and all you get out of them is solving the puzzle, and all too often it's not obvious how to start. Similarly with many of the cryptos which are just stupid puzzles - like the drugs one. I feel the same way with a lot of the specials - a few cryptos and steganos strung togther, and chances are you get stuck on one bit. I think even the crackits are starting to see this kind of change with peculiar cpu's and programs. It seems that many people have submitted things just to submit something as hard as they can think of, and it isn't much fun to solve these things. And that's why I solve, because I enjoy doing it, if I find something that I'm not enjoying then I don't do it, and that's where many of the stegano's are fitting right now. If a particular stegano attracts a lot of solvers then I might look at it more, but otherwise it's the ten minute rule for me!