stegomedium

Unsettled Huffman

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Task: ZIP archive with deflate-compressed PNG that is larger after compression; challenge hints at Huffman/deflate. Solution: parse raw deflate bitstream, extract block type (stored=1, fixed Huffman=0) from each of 435 blocks, decode bits as ASCII to recover the flag.

$ ls tags/ techniques/
steganographyzippnghuffmancompressiondeflatebitstreambait_flag
deflate_block_type_steganographyzip_internal_structure_analysisraw_bitstream_parsingbait_decoy_identification
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