Solving the Unredacter Challenge

Published

2022-09-08 00:00

Collected

2026-07-08 00:25

---
id: 3997
title: "Solving the Unredacter Challenge"
source_domain: bishopfox.com
source_url: "https://bishopfox.com/blog/unredacter-winner"
published_at: "2022-09-08T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["ctf", "security-research", "unredacter", "redaction", "pixelation", "image-analysis"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/3997"
lang: en
---

# Solving the Unredacter Challenge

## Summary

Optiv's Shawn Asmus walks through his approach to winning Bishop Fox's Unredacter challenge, recovering text from a pixelated image by analyzing fonts, layouts, and other clues.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** bishopfox.com
- **Published:** 2022-09-08T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://bishopfox.com/blog/unredacter-winner
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/3997