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Holy Book

Cryptography | Hard - Holy Book

Challenge​

What do these numbers mean? (Please wrap your answer like such: scs{answer})

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hint
What is the easiest method to access the metadata of any file?
hint
Think of ciphers that involve the title of this challenge.

Q1 - 100 points
What is the hidden message?

Solution​

Solution Guide

  1. Title is related to the cipher being used

  2. Lyrics is the book/dictionary for the cipher (which is in image metadata)

  3. To find the cipher, run strings on the mp3 file in Linux OR just open the file as a text file

    Reveal Cipher

    Cipher: 159, 150, 147, 40, 150, 221, 285, 147, 281, 242

  4. Copy paste Cipher and Lyrics (the “book”) into a decoder

Credits​

  • Author(s): Divesh Gupta (legendile7)