Translation and Shifting (Format encoding) 🥭

Here are some of the most CTF common formats to encode flags with examples:

• Binary: 01101100 01100101 01110100 01110011 00100000 01110100 01110010 01111001 00100000 01110011 01101111 01101101 01100101 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01101111 01110101 01110100 00100001 → lets try some binary out!
• Base32: MJQXGZJTGIQGS4ZAON2XAZLSEBRW63LNN5XCA2LOEBBVIRRHOM====== → base32 is super common in CTF's
• Base64: RWFjaCBCYXNlNjQgZGlnaXQgcmVwcmVzZW50cyBleGFjdGx5IDYgYml0cyBvZiBkYXRhLg== → Each Base64 digit represents exactly 6 bits of data.
• Base91: dcode
• Hexadecimal: 68 65 78 61 64 65 63 69 6d 61 6c 20 6f 72 20 62 61 73 65 31 36 3f → hexadecimal or base16?
• ROT13: Ebgngr zr 13 cynprf! → Rotate me 13 places!
• ROT47: *@F DA:? >6 C:89E C@F?5 323J C:89E C@F?5 Wcf E:>6DX → you spin me right round baby right round (47 times)
• Morse: - . .-.. . -.-. --- -- -- ..- -. .. -.-. .- - .. --- -.. -. -.-. --- -.. .. -. --. → TELECOMMUNICATION ENCODING
• Decimal: 85 110 112 97 99 107 32 116 104 105 115 32 66 67 68 → Unpack this BCD
• Vigenere Cipher: decoder1, decoder2, decoder3
  • Beaufort Variant: Tizmg_nv_zxxvhh_gl_gsv_nzk_kovzhv
• More Cipher (rare Caesar): quipqiup (Like Lwuv oguukpi ctqwpf.)
• If you see something like: 581695969015253365094191591547859387620042736036246486373595515576333693, try the following script:

n = 581695969015253365094191591547859387620042736036246486373595515576333693
h = hex(n)[2:]
print(bytearray.fromhex(h).decode())

• If you don’t know the cipher, try here pasting the message: dcode
• Spoon Programming language:

111111111100100010101011101011111110101111111111011011011011000001101001001011111111111111001010010111100101000000000000101001101111001010010010111111110010100000000000000000000000000000000000000010101111110010101100101000000000000000000000101001101100101001001011111111111111111111001010000000000000000000000000001010111001010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001010011011001010010010111111111111111111111001010000000000000000000000000000000001010111111001010011011001010010111111111111100101001000000000000101001111110010100110010100100100000000000000000000010101110010100010100000000000000010100000000010101111100101001111001010011001010010000001010010100101011100101001101100101001011100101001010010100110110010101111111111111111111111111111111110010100100100000000000010100010100111110010100000000000000000000000010100111111111111111110010100101111001010000000000000001010
 
that means:
 
The magic word you are looking for is ApplePie