What are good starting points and tips for completing challenges like unified involving a message hidden inside a text file?
And yes i tried everything i found on google with no luck.
Research ‘how’ you can hide information in text files which look plain old to the naked eye 
yeah…I have done that a lot, like I said i tried everything i could find on google.
how about white space
yeah tried that too
In computing, a character encoding is used to represent a repertoire of characters by some kind of encoding system.
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Hummm I’m still struggling with this one… What I did so far:
- Try and convert the .txt in notepad++ > failure
- Open with hexdump -C, hexdump -R > failure
I don’t get it. Had the filename any hint in itself?
Try Burp Suit Decoder!!!
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I need help! The first thing I did was try Burp (before even seeing this thread) and I found the unicode characters that look to be English and they all seem to be hes couplets bracketed by a number, but I am not sure what to do with this! Someone PM me if it would be too much to say here!
I know 7B is { in ASCII but that’s not quite what I see and the rest… I feel like it’s staring me right in the face, If it were a snake…
Think about the fact your terminal output maybe have a different encoding than some kali’s text embedded editors.
Hi, there I solved this problem by pasting the txt content opened at TextEdit to the burp suite decoder. However I found that the hex code show on the burp suite is not the same as the original. Can anyone explain? I was totally no idea about that.