This challenge won’t that too hard when you found the right cipher . Don’t overthink too much just follow by the hints and done .
Probably I’m overthinking, but given the hint I should be able to go from august to chris, but then the hint suggests that from chris I should able to decrypt to a Base64 … and I cannot find how to perform this step.
Edit: Solved.
It was a nice challenge, just the hint should be more clear, in a previous post the author gave a different hint: “August typed Christopher a note with his left hand while he stayed in America, but he cannot understand it. can you decipher his note?” this could be better, but actually it could be better
August typed Christopher a note with his left hand without watching while he stayed in America, but he cannot understand it. can you decipher his note
But I liked it.
solved (was possible only with the former hints may I just say… nevertheless nice challenge! Learned some!), but the confusing part is deciding which letter is uppercase and which is lowercase. You had to give something about it… Hope I didn’t give too much knowledge to the solvers. But after all as I said - a really good chall!
@obarmatz said:
solved (was possible only with the former hints may I just say… nevertheless nice challenge! Learned some!), but the confusing part is deciding which letter is uppercase and which is lowercase. You had to give something about it… Hope I didn’t give too much knowledge to the solvers. But after all as I said - a really good chall!
I found the involved characters, dont know what to do with it. Someone PM me a nudge please
Read all the clue. Still unable to get anything from this cipher. Any tips ?
Got it! Only following the tips can you get there.
SUPER DOPE AND VALUABLE TIP:
Dont focus on dcode. Like already said in this forum , is a blackhole that sucks all your time and patience and house and dog and everything more you have, untill you have nothing and die.
Figured out the trick after remembering some random bit of trivia from college 20 years ago about the August component. Finally got it decoded, and the flag looked like the right format and made sense. Took me a couple of tries to cut-and-paste it correctly–seriously, how did I mess up cut-and-paste?! But all good now! It was a bit of fun outside-the-box thinking on this one!
I’ve seen the same encoding being used in Geocaching challenges, although the hints made it a lot easier then…
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just read fucking wikipedia carefully. Once you found it read again the instructions of challenge. Hope it helps xD
PS: also this thing is in front of you
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Read all the clue. Still unable to get anything from this cipher. Any tips ?
Think about who is this August related to something in front of you (if you are using your PC ) …
Once you got it, it’s easy to find the cipher.
Could anyone help me with this challenge? I could tell you how far I have worked and you could give me some more useful hints for me to get the flag. Thanks.
I think this challenge is good, but has a very very vague hint, which resulted in a huge number of dislikes.
If you give an encoded text, and use such an unusual way of encoding it, you should at least give a clear hint to how one can decode it.
So, I’ll do that. Here’s a proper hint:
August still lives in the 80s and is left handed, and typed the flag for someone who lives today. Go back in time, and retrace his typing!
Can someone help me with the flag submission I have the flag but it’s not accepting it. Did all the right steps.
nvm solved it
Solved.
the hints on forum are enough
but i think the hint given with challenge is not enough, if i didnt read forum, maybe i spend hours
solved, pm me for help 
Who knew? Google University found me a cipher decoder for this…
Thanks to the hints I found some decipher online, from keyboards to keyboards, but none of the decoded messages are base64 encoded (As I think it should be the output, since the hints author gave). Am I missing something?
NVM, I got what i was missing.
Hint: use the correct hand.
I dont want to spoil this great challenge thanks to @StayNe made me think a lot and out of the box.
Hint (hope not to spoil): Read carefully hints given from @StayNe they will help you alot, just create your own cipher from the hints “August LEFT” and Chris. Than decode the message in base64 and you are done.
Sorry if this is a spoil, if you think yes let em know to delete the comment.