Does anyone know if we have to look at the picture as a painting (no digital editing) or if we should look at it like a photo of the painting (could have been edited).
Could we solve the puzzle by only looking at the painting in a gallery for example ? (still having a computer to compute the base conversion, sha256 etc...)
Thx !
Good question. It' very likely some
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography is applied. In previous puzzle we even had files hidden within files, with different kinds of compression algorithms.
You shouldn't assume you can solve the riddle without looking into the file, but it is possible.