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Dec 2: Wishlist

Challenge

The fifth power of two

Something happened to my wishlist, please help me.

Get the Wishlist

Solution

This is clearly base-64 encoded, we decode, and still looks base64 encoded. Taking the hint into account, we decode 32 times:

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$ cat Wishlist.txt | base64 -d | base64 -d | base64 -d | base64 -d | base64 -d |
base64 -d | base64 -d  | base64 -d | base64 -d | base64 -d | base64 -d | base64 -d |
base64 -d | base64 -d | base64 -d | base64 -d | base64 -d | base64 -d | base64 -d |
base64 -d | base64 -d | base64 -d | base64 -d | base64 -d | base64 -d | base64 -d |
base64 -d | base64 -d | base64 -d | base64 -d | base64 -d | base64 -d

HV17-Th3F-1fth-Pow3-r0f2-is32%

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