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The OverTheWire Advent Bonanza 2019 challenge for Friday 20 December 2019

Strike a pose

The OverTheWire Advent Bonanza 2019 challenge for Friday 20 December 2019

Today is Ugly Christmas Sweater day, a day when having a lack of style
is actually an advantage!

Today's challenge can yield two flags, because it has two independent parts. You don't need to participate in both challenges, unless you want both flags.

Part 1: Show us your ridiculous holiday outfit

Wearing your ugliest most awesome holiday outfit, recreate an iconic photo. Use an image editor to place the original and the new image next to each other, like in the example Santa_outfit.jpg image. Make sure your image does not exceed 640x480 and name it _outfit.jpg.

Part 2: Show us your heart

Although this holiday season is for many of us a happy occasion, let us
not forget about all those that are less fortunate.

Contribute to any charity of your choosing, in any way that is helpful.
Donating money is the easy way, but there are also a lot of other ways
to help: donate clothes, toys, food, hugs or even your blood.

Create a photo with some kind of evidence of your involvement, make sure your photo does not exceed 640x480 and name it _heart.jpg.

Submitting and rewards

  • generate a public/private key pair that will later be used to send your reward to you. KEEP THESE FILES SOMEWHERE
openssl genrsa -out private.pem 2048
openssl rsa -in private.pem -outform PEM -pubout -out public.pem
  • Create a pull request with both (or one of) the above pictures and mention your team name in the comment, and also paste your PUBLIC KEY there.

  • now wait until we have a chance to merge your pull request.

  • You reward will be sent to you in a comment of the pull request, encrypted with your public key. To decrypt the encrypted message reward.b64, execute:

base64 -d <reward.b64 >reward.bin
openssl rsautl -decrypt -inkey private.pem -in reward.bin -out reward.txt