Pico CTF - Bases
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What does this bDNhcm5fdGgzX3IwcDM1 mean? I think it has something to do with bases.
Run the following command in the terminal.
echo 'bDNhcm5fdGgzX3IwcDM1' | base64 -d
Engulf the output inside picoCTF[output]
But, let's look a little deeper. The base64 command encodes binary strings into text representations using the base64 encoding format. So, base64 is just a format that is in a sense scrambled. The parameter -d just decodes from the base64 format to plain text, that we can read.