🗝️Case 1: Starting from the Basics

Learn about the basic encoding techniques that computers use to communicate across the internet.

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?

Try copying this base64 and figuring out what it hides!

Base64 to Image | Base64 Decode | Base64 Converter | Base64

Encoding - Google Jamboard

Tools to Use:

• Python

• base64 package

• CyberChef

Activity

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.