Points: 50
Description:
Just keep going…
persevere.txt
Rot13->b64->repeat, should be automated for good results.
Hint:
nope
The problem description tells us exactly how to reverse the contents of the file. This file contains the output of base64, which makes binary data safe to export as ASCII text, and rot13, which is just the Caesar cipher with n = 13. However, instead of automation, we just copied and pasted a long chain of commands and pipes and then adjusted it until we got the flag.
[!] cat persevere.txt | rot13 | base64 -d | rot13 | base64 -d | rot13 | base64 -d | rot13 | base64 -d | rot13 | base64 -d | rot13 | base64 -d | rot13 | base64 -d | rot13 | base64 -d | rot13 | base64 -d | rot13 | base64 -d | rot13 | base64 -d | rot13 | base64 -d | rot13 | base64 -d | rot13 | base64 -d | rot13 | base64 -d | rot13 | base64 -d | rot13 | base64 -d | rot13 | base64 -d | rot13 | base64 -d | rot13 | base64 -d | rot13 | base64 -d | rot13 | base64 -d | rot13 | base64 -d | rot13 | base64 -d | rot13 | base64 -d | rot13 | base64 -d | rot13 | base64 -d | rot13 | base64 -d | rot13 | base64 -d | rot13 | base64 -d
Flag: isnt_automation_great
- None.