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Topic: Old Main Augustana.jpg (Read 1006 times)

legendary
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July 12, 2017, 11:40:09 AM
#8
Please note, that the image was slightly changed by image hosting site imgur.com
You should decode binary from the transaction yourself to find anything intersting

I think that there is no steganography in it.
If you want private keys - you can take them from my forum signature  Grin
legendary
Activity: 1456
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I may write code in exchange for bitcoins.
July 12, 2017, 11:14:44 AM
#7
Fascinating. I wonder if somebody played with opposite case - steganography related to blockchain. Hiding a private key inside a picture or using picture as a seed to generate key it would be interesting...

The latter is trivially easy, right?

Code:
$ cat dispicture.jpg | sha256sum | privkeytowif.sh
member
Activity: 84
Merit: 10
StuffGoGo Developer
July 12, 2017, 09:59:52 AM
#6
Fascinating. I wonder if somebody played with opposite case - steganography related to blockchain. Hiding a private key inside a picture or using picture as a seed to generate key it would be interesting...
jr. member
Activity: 54
Merit: 1
July 11, 2017, 08:47:15 PM
#5
I think the purpose is to sabotate the blockchain uploading illegal images.
newbie
Activity: 55
Merit: 0
July 11, 2017, 06:57:14 PM
#4
Is there a purpose to putting images in tx? Or just for testing capabilities?
legendary
Activity: 1260
Merit: 1019
July 10, 2017, 01:50:07 PM
#3
the image is encoded in scriptSigs as raw binary chunks.
this is a method to store in blockchain more than 80 bytes of data as in OP_RETURN output
(I am not a sender/creator of this transaction)
legendary
Activity: 1456
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I may write code in exchange for bitcoins.
July 10, 2017, 01:45:05 PM
#2
Okay, I'll bite, I'm curious.

I see this in OP RETURN:

 "jLN Augustana College Old-Main.jpg Reconstruct with data preceding redeemscripts"

So I guess you've got the jpeg file in there somewhere (I didn't look at the whole raw transaction or try finding it).

What was the point here?  What am I missing?
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