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2column message crack: >python imagecrack.py http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/R.Clayton/UoSsecret.png
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imagecrack.py
# Run with:
# python imagecrack.py http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/R.Clayton/UoSsecret.png
import Image
from numpy import asarray
from urllib2 import urlopen
from cStringIO import StringIO
from sys import argv
png = asarray(Image.open(StringIO(urlopen(argv[1]).read()))) # open the image from URL as an array
print ''.join([chr(png[x,y]) for (x,y) in png[:,0:2]-1]) # for each leading pair in the array find the corresponding character (-1 from its value MATLAB 1 indexing...)
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