@cyberus said:
They do lead somewhere…but some bits are missing
I think this is misleading a bit, it’s rather a representation of specific character encoding scheme until the output makes sense after doing the obvious transformation, and taking into consideration the challenge name. “Missing bits” implies that you manually need to manipulate (add/remove) bits – however, that was not the case in this challenge.
In my opinion (and I don’t know if I’m even close), the first transformation is what has been suggested.
Now, the missing bits… Considering all alphanumeric ascii are below 128, we can try making sure all octets start with 0 (adding the missing bits there)…
In my opinion (and I don’t know if I’m even close), the first transformation is what has been suggested.
Now, the missing bits… Considering all alphanumeric ascii are below 128, we can try making sure all octets start with 0 (adding the missing bits there)…
This challenge was quite a thing… I had the base 32 string all this time and could not decode it as i was trying other online sites and later build one myself using python… later i realised that I could have done it so easily without writing any piece of code XD
Wow, I really need to learn to read properly. I tried almost everything, but somehow though the first step was not necessary… It is very difficult to solve it without that first step. (first messages in this thread )