Here's an idea that I'm sure I wasn't the first person to think about. While I have been trying a few stegonography challenges lately, and I thought that maybe a nice basic tutorial with some examples would be great to get the basic idea of steganos into newbies heads. I'm new to the challenge type, and was wondering if maybe.........oh I dunno, Bara might have himself some things to help newer people out with. Post your thoughts. Feel free to hate bash and swear at me all ya want, but I think that it's the only topic that it's hard to find any good info on. So I'd appreciate some feedback. Cheers

Element,
I totally agree. I have only solved the easier challenges in the Steganography section and tuts. sound like a good idea.

Hi Element,

I just noticed that you already solved 8 Steganos. If you ask me you already have the basic idea of steganos in your head.
The knowledge you need to solve the 8 challenges you have done is enough to solve at least 20 more !!

If you write a tutorial on how to approach steganos (based on the steganos you've done) it will perfectly fit for 80% of the remaining ones.
All you need is logic and some imagination and maybe some luck too...

Greets
- magdeburg

How about a stegano walkthrough?

Hmm.. perhaps we should try IDDQD, IDKFA on the stegano's... spares us the time to write a walkthrough.

Look at this thread and read the post from BaRa :
http://www.bright-shadows.net/forum/forum_showtopic.php?topicid=2226

All is there. Now you can solve all stegano challenges

magdeburg, I'm not saying that I need a lot more information for stegos. I know what they are and how to generally approach them. But when I first got to the site, I didn't, and many newbs would have absolutely no idea. So, the idea wasn't really for me, just for people who have no understanding of the challenge type. And, btw, that link that was posted above has some really good information on it, so thanks for that.

@magdeburg: it is possible to solve 20 more challenges with the knowledge of 8 challenges? so I could also solve 20 more?

well, all the more I read about cryptography I know the most important thing is having a good intuition and using a frequency count .... perhaps you also have such a panacea for steganos?
I think it will not be a spoiler if I post what I think is the "panacea" for steganos:
having the right idea,
looking at the exact color (hex, rgb, whatever, this can be a bit cryptography-work)
looking at the image in different ways (zooming, with gimp)
making a color-table

edit: I forgot about that: reading the forum

i'm quite sure