Worse Codes
- Cyber Catamounts
- Sep 7, 2020
- 1 min read
Briefing
Great news, we managed to track down the station of a notorious hacker group. They were gone when we arrived, but they left in a haste and left something in behind. We find this shred of paper in their station, which also has a telegraph. We believe it’s an encoded message. Can you find a way to crack it?
Hint: Come on, who still uses telegraphs now? Oh, did you know who invented telegraph in 1835?
Hint 2: The flag is the decoded secret code, all uppercase.
. -.. --- -.-. -. . ..--.- . .-.. -... ..- --- -..
---... . -.. --- -.-.
- . .-. -.-. . ...
Dot, dash, dot, dot dash? Morse code! (Haha, get it worse codes?)
When we decode from morse code, we get "EDOCNE_ELBUOD :EDOC TERCES"
Doesn't look too readable unfortunately...
What if we reversed it??
SECRET CODE: DOUBLE_ENCODE
Yes! The flag is "DOUBLE_ENCODE!"
MORSE CODE --> REVERSE
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