> Alice sent over a couple of images with sensitive information to > Bob, encrypted with a pre-shared key. It is the most secure > encryption scheme, theoretically... The challenge consists of two monochrome PNG images of what seems to be visual snow. The encryption scheme alluded to is the One-Time Pad, with the well-known weakness that key streams may not be reused. If that property is violated, then `E(A, K) ^ E(B, K) = A ^ K ^ B ^ K = A ^ B`. Interpreted in terms of an image you'd get both unencrypted images superimposed. I wrote some code using [ChunkyPNG](https://chunkypng.com/) performing this operation. The resulting image shows a base64-encoded flag: $ base64 -d <<< ZmxhZ3swbjNfdDFtM19QQGQhfQ== flag{0n3_t1m3_P@d!}