It’s New Year again—first of all, best wishes to everyone!

Happy New Year and may joy fill your days!

May you always keep kindness in your heart and stay clear and bright.

Analysis of last year’s late New-Year game

The 2022 New-Year game wasn’t very hard; four classmates grabbed the red envelopes. I’d planned to post the solution after the holiday, but I forgot while busy with my graduation project:

In the bottom-right corner of the image you can see a hint to change the image extension to .zip.

Opening the archive reveals a Password.txt; open it and you get the password directly—pretty simple, right?

This year’s New-Year game

This year’s New-Year game is a bit tougher; here are some small hints:

Note

The message is inside this image, and the clue to the encryption method is also in the image.

The message is hidden in the image with a very classic encryption method.

This encryption method has very low robustness and is not recommended for JPG images, because JPG’s compression algorithm may destroy the encrypted information.

The encryption method is not the same as last year’s New-Year game.

The final password is pure English letters.

You might need a hex viewer—don’t worry, I’ve found one for you: deploying portal .

After obtaining the key, please send it to i@mail.vinking.top to claim the Alipay red-envelope code.

The decryption method will be updated after the holiday. Enjoy it. Being a riddle-man is so much fun