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2 August 2020

Spaghetti

by vishalananth

It’s a classic, it’s everyones favorite, it’s spaghetti! The long noodles are the best!

Solution

After nearly spending two days and trying everything, we come across this link: https://www.sans.org/blog/strings-strings-are-wonderful-things/ which was the saviour and gave us the command we needed:

strings -el spaghetti.png

This command makes the unicode characters visible by taking 16-bit characters and gives us the flag.

Flag

flag{wow_that_was_a_long_string_of_spaghetti}
tags: Warmups