WEIRD MESSAGE
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Description
You hacker friend sent you a weird message.
What could all this mean?
50pts
Question
Try to read the message somehow:
VG8gYmVjb21lIGEgZ3JlYXQgaGFja2VyLCB5b3UgdG9vIG11c3QgbGVhcm4gYWxsIHRo
ZSBlbmNvZGluZyBzY2hlbWVzIApBbHNvIGEgZmxhZyBtaWdodCBiZSBoZWxwZnVsOiAK
NDc4MzYzNWQtODUxZC00MjNiLTg3YzQtMGU4NWRhM2JlZjM0
Solution
The formatting of the text looked very familiar and I decided to try to encode that text with the base64 algorithm.
The code translated into the following format
To become a great hacker, you too must learn all the encoding schemes
Also a flag might be helpful:
4783635d-851d-423b-87c4-0e85da3bef34
Tools
- https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/ - Super tool to encode and decode strings
Flag
4783635d-851d-423b-87c4-0e85da3bef34
