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Alien space invaders left a secret message. Luckily, you know that they used codemoji.org for the encryption.

Decrypt the message, and save the planet!!

βšΎβ­πŸ“―πŸ’΅πŸŽ¨πŸ“’πŸ“˜πŸ’ͺβ˜€πŸŒ†πŸ’ͺπŸΈπŸŽ¨πŸ¦πŸ“’

Solution

  • Go to https://codemoji.org/#/encrypt
  • create a random message
  • β€œshare”, they give you a shortlink that resolves into β€œhttps://codemoji.org/share.html?data=….” where data is an html encoded, base64 encoded blob of json like:

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     {
       "message": "βšΎβ­πŸ“―πŸ’΅πŸŽ¨πŸ“’πŸ“˜πŸ’ͺβ˜€πŸŒ†πŸ’ͺπŸΈπŸŽ¨πŸ¦πŸ“’",
       "key": "πŸ‘Ύ"
     }
    
  • replace the message with the given input: β€œβšΎβ­πŸ“―πŸ’΅πŸŽ¨πŸ“’πŸ“˜πŸ’ͺβ˜€πŸŒ†πŸ’ͺπŸΈπŸŽ¨πŸ¦πŸ“’β€
  • and get this url
  • which decodes with the invader emoji to invad3rsmustd13

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