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HACKvent 2015: Day 2


07 Dec 2015
CTF: Hackvent 2015
Link to challenge: http://hackvent.hacking-lab.com
Date Completed: 07 December 2015

Challenge

Solution

After some Googling I realise this is the Klingon language from Star Trek.
I try some online translators (including Bing!) and it is clear that the message is a series of numbers that containor 1 only.
This is most likely binary that represents ASCII text.

I write a small script to convert each component in the text (based on a Klingon number guide):

This prints out some binary:

Total number of bits is 232 and 232/8 bits = 29 bytes.
This is exactly the number of characters in our nugget!

We convert the binary to ASCII and get the flag:
HV15-AfDd-Mr5J-zf1v-K7aO-FQ4h

 
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