A tech$-$savvy suspect attempted to hide the password of a file from the Police. To do this, the suspect used Based$-64$ encoding, knowIdge of hashing, and file carving techniques.

Suppose that the suspect performed the following sequences of function on the password.

The suspect first creates a hash of the plaintext password.

The suspect then computes the base$-64$ encoding of the hashed password $($saved the information in a txt file$).$

Used the ISB method to hide the information $($ txt$)$ inside an image.

$$ Perform Hex scrambling using a manual replacement approach.

What is the right sequence to retrieve the plaintext password?

$$ A$.$ Retrieve the hidden message from the image$-$ Compute hash lookup $-$ Compute Base$-64$ decoding

$$ B$.$ Perform file carving $+$ Retrieve the hidden message from the image$-$Compute Base$-64$ decoding Compute hash lookup

$$ C$.$ Compute hash lookup $-$ Perform file carving Compute Base$-64$ decoding $>$ Retrieve the hidden message from the image $$ D$.$ Retrieve the hidden message from the image$-$Compute Base$-64$ encoding $+$ Perform file carving$->$Compute hash lookup

O E$.$ Perform file carving$->$Compute hash lookup Compute Base$-64$ encoding $>$ Retrieve the hidden message from the image.