Barrier
by sealldev
🚩 CTFs SecEdu CTF 2024 cryptography
Barrier / SecEdu CTF 2024

Original Writeup on seall.dev
We are supplied a mix.txt
which is a large text file or various English, Cyrillic and Chinese characters.
I put this into Dcode.fr’s Cipher Identifier.
It is pretty sure it’s a Skip Cipher.
Going to the Skip Cipher page, I try the whole of mix.txt
and get no results…
I look at the mix.txt
and notice a portion with a {
and a }
.
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I copy this into the Skip Cipher decoder, and ignore spaces.
y road. Then was the fear a little quieted , Вышел из моря на берег, Поворачивается к оdewegs leitet. Dann beruhigte sich die AngstSECEDU{n0_l4nguag3_b4rri3r}狼は 痩せこけた体に荷を背負ってい我眼前出现了一个人, 他似乎因为长时间的沉默而声音嘶哑。 当我在茫茫沙漠中看到他时,
It decodes it!
Flag: SECEDU{n0_l4nguag3_b4rri3r}