Hack the CTF
  • 🚩Welcome to Hack the CTF
  • Getting Started
    • ⭐Course Overview
    • ❓Why We Made This Course
    • 🔷Why CTFs are Important
    • Types of CTFs
    • Interesting CTF Info
  • Basics
    • Flag Format
    • Challenge Types (chals)
    • ✨Misc Terms & Rules
    • Tools and Methods
    • 🎮Let's Play
  • The Challenges
    • 🤔Learn, Hints, Solutions
    • 🟩EASY CHALS
      • 🟩Flag on a Function
      • 🟩Binary
      • 🟩Find and Watch
      • 🟩Lots of Them
      • 🟩Who Said This?
      • 🟩Click This Link
      • 🟩Remote Connect
      • 🟩Beeps and Beeps
      • 🟩Someone Not Use HTTPS
      • 🟩Cipher
      • 🟩Find Someone
      • 🟩CTF Page #2
      • 🟩Too Much Blue
    • 🟨MEDIUM CHALS
      • 🟨Hiding Right in Front of You
      • 🟨Base64 is the Answer
      • 🟨Hash of the Server IP Address
      • 🟨Query String
      • 🟨Literally in the Picture
      • 🟨Find the Texty Record
      • 🟨Where in the git is the Flag?
      • 🟨Websockets Delivery
      • 🟨Hacker Hid a File
      • 🟨I Hear Something
      • 🟨Where Am I?
      • 🟨Shakespeare is Hiding Something
      • 🟨CTF Page
    • 🟥HARD CHALS
      • 🟥Image Doesn't Work
      • 🟥Where is it?
      • 🟥Code Breaker
      • 🟥TV - Amateur Radio Way
  • Extra Resources
    • Where to Find More CTFs
  • Conclusion
    • Course Recap
    • 📝Quiz
    • 🦉Keep on Learning
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CRYPTO | code breaking secrets hidden in numbers and symbols | MEDIUM

This flag is about another very common encoding used on the web. It isn't actually cryptography, because the message can be encoded or decoded without a key. It is a great way to slightly obscure messages, but is also used to get a text based representation of a binary file.

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https://www.base64decode.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NposCIHufdI&list=PLFuCtJnW6S5iSDjIFa2QAjWi7BcKJBJhm