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General Skills 200: what base is this?
Challenge
To be successful on your mission, you must be able read data represented in different ways, such as hexadecimal or binary. Can you get the flag from this program to prove you are ready? Connect with nc 2018shell1.picoctf.com 14390.
Solution
we connect and are asked to convert some numbers to ascii:
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$ nc 2018shell1.picoctf.com 14390 [07-10-18 18:39:56]
We are going to start at the very beginning and make sure you understand how data is stored.
turtle
Please give me the 01110100 01110101 01110010 01110100 01101100 01100101 as a word.
To make things interesting, you have 30 seconds.
Input:
turtle
Please give me the 636f756368 as a word.
Input:
couch
Please give me the 154 141 155 160 160 157 163 164 as a word.
Input:
lamppost
You got it! You're super quick!
Flag: picoCTF{delusions_about_finding_values_602fd280}
Flag
picoCTF{delusions_about_finding_values_602fd280}