Case 1: Starting from the Basics
Learn about the basic encoding techniques that computers use to communicate across the internet.
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Learn about the basic encoding techniques that computers use to communicate across the internet.
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We've intercepted a long and strange message from a suspicious source. Could you attempt to decode it to see what it says?
In the end, things like images and files are just information. A long block of text can be hiding a lot... What is this long string of base64 hiding?
After you finish experimenting with what binary, base64, hexadecimal, and octal all look like with Python print statements, play around with the website https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/ to try decoding the commented out message.