Challenge Author: LT ‘SYREAL’ JONES

Category: General Skills

Difficulty: Easy

Description

Our flag printing services has started glitching!

Process / Notes

1. nc into the challenge instance
2. Most of the flag was presented
3. Flag will be this decrypted
4. echo '0x62 0x64 0x61 0x36 0x38 0x66 0x37 0x35' | xxd -rp
5. Returns ‘bda68f75’
6. Add that to the end of the presented flag and the full thing is revealed!

6 minutes 34 seconds to complete

Hints

1. ASCII is one of the most common encodings used in programming
2. We know that the glitch output is valid python, somehow!
3. Press CTRL and c on your keyboard to close your connection and return to the command prompt

Core Lessons

1. Recognize ASCII and understand how to convert it
2. Undrstand how to use xxd