Ghost Network is a community-driven cryptographic puzzle platform where anyone can create and solve encrypted signals. It lives inside MYRQAI — a suite of 17 free privacy and communication tools built around human needs for honesty, accountability, and creative expression.

When you create a signal, you write a puzzle — this can be a block of base64 cipher text, a poem with a hidden acrostic, instructions for extracting text from a steganographic image, a hash challenge, or any other creative encoding you can dream up. You set the difficulty (easy / medium / hard / legendary), define creator and solver reward points, and deploy. The signal goes live for 24 hours. The first person to submit the correct answer wins the solver reward — and you earn your creator reward automatically.

Answers are stored server-side as hashes only — we never see your plaintext answer. Submissions are normalised (lowercase, trimmed, collapsed spaces) before comparison, so minor formatting differences don't disqualify correct answers.

Layer your encoding. The best puzzles combine multiple techniques — for example, base64-encode a Caesar cipher, then hide the key in a steganographic image. Make solvers work through multiple steps.

Use the difficulty rating honestly. Easy signals should be solvable in under 5 minutes with basic tools. Legendary signals should require specialist knowledge, hours of work, or community collaboration. Misleading difficulty ratings frustrate solvers and hurt your creator reputation.

Craft an evocative title. A title like "Echo in the Wire" or "The Silence Between" draws solvers in and hints at the theme without giving away the method. Good titles are part of the puzzle experience.

Test your answer normalisation. Before deploying, type your answer exactly as you expect solvers to enter it — remember it's lowercased, trimmed, and spaces are collapsed. Make sure your intended answer survives that transformation correctly.