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Google CTF 2019

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Re: Google CTF 2019

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I'm on that as well, for me it seems it just decodes some Unicode characters and does arithmetic to print the message, I don't know why it's taking so long or how can I speed it up.

It's calculating prime numbers which is why it's slow. Now if only I was to work out which prime numbers it wants... :)

have you guys figured it out? I got stuck here too.

Re: Google CTF 2019

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Running it with pypy sped it up quite a bit and got it far enough to figure out the remaining portion of the URL.

Haha, I was gonna try exactly that, but I got too lazy trying to install pypy3 on my shitty centos box. My other option was to translate it into real assembly, but that also seemed like more work that I wanted to put into it.

I guessed the URL, but found nothing on it.

I'm guessing the flag may be in the rest of the message to be decoded.

Re: Google CTF 2019

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Haha, I was gonna try exactly that, but I got too lazy trying to install pypy3 on my shitty centos box. My other option was to translate it into real assembly, but that also seemed like more work that I wanted to put into it.

I guessed the URL, but found nothing on it. I'm guessing the flag may be in the rest of the message to be decoded.

Check the pngs across the domain. There is something special in at least one of them.

Re: Google CTF 2019

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I guessed the URL, but found nothing on it. I'm guessing the flag may be in the rest of the message to be decoded.

Check the pngs across the domain. There is something special in at least one of them.

Already checked them out, for EXIF data, visually and also inverted colors. What I am missing?

I scrapped and downloaded around 55 pngs.

Re: Google CTF 2019

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Check the pngs across the domain. There is something special in at least one of them.

Already checked them out, for EXIF data, visually and also inverted colors. What I am missing? I scrapped and downloaded around 55 pngs.

Yeah, I found 55 profiles/pngs. Tried ordering the profiles by the image # (from 2 to 56). Noticed the profile names are also a variation of two emojis, so tried looking into binary/morse, but nothing.

As the comment above implies, it seems like my approach was wrong and the answer is in one of the images I guess

Re: Google CTF 2019

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Already checked them out, for EXIF data, visually and also inverted colors. What I am missing? I scrapped and downloaded around 55 pngs.

Yeah, I found 55 profiles/pngs. Tried ordering the profiles by the image # (from 2 to 56). Noticed the profile names are also a variation of two emojis, so tried looking into binary/morse, but nothing. As the comment above implies, it seems like my approach was wrong and the answer is in one of the images I guess

I checked the pictures a lot of times, maybe I'm missing something.

Re: Google CTF 2019

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Already checked them out, for EXIF data, visually and also inverted colors. What I am missing? I scrapped and downloaded around 55 pngs.

Yeah, I found 55 profiles/pngs. Tried ordering the profiles by the image # (from 2 to 56). Noticed the profile names are also a variation of two emojis, so tried looking into binary/morse, but nothing. As the comment above implies, it seems like my approach was wrong and the answer is in one of the images I guess

If you'd like to whine a bit with me, join me at: ##ctfcompetition @ freenode, I'm currently under the nick caulifl0wer

Re: Google CTF 2019

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post #114

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Already checked them out, for EXIF data, visually and also inverted colors. What I am missing? I scrapped and downloaded around 55 pngs.

Yeah, I found 55 profiles/pngs. Tried ordering the profiles by the image # (from 2 to 56). Noticed the profile names are also a variation of two emojis, so tried looking into binary/morse, but nothing. As the comment above implies, it seems like my approach was wrong and the answer is in one of the images I guess

I might be going the wrong way with that then. Using stegoveritas I noticed that PNG has a bunch of "ISO-8859 text, with very long lines, with no line terminators" files which isn't normal for PNGs.

Re: Google CTF 2019

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Three of the problems in the beginners quest have 2 flags. In two of the problems, the problems themselves tell you that there are two flags (or give you very obvious hints), but I have no idea which one is the third problem that has a second let alone how to get it...could anyone give me a hint?

Re: Google CTF 2019

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I’m always amazed how a company that creates the world’s most popular mobile OS and web browser is unable to code a decent mobile webpage. Scrolling this page is sufferable, anchor links don’t work well, etc. Basic stuff. Look no further than G Suite, Google Cloud for more examples.

I mean, it's not like this CTF requires you to unzip data, use a terminal (decrypt Base64, use Telnet and python scripts) and read weird files with unreadable characters

What has that got to do with anything?

You should be able to read the page on mobile effortlessly.

The fact that is polemic is symptomatic.

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