Description
To protect the culture of the Southern Water Tribe, traditional recipes are often recorded in an encrypted form. You have found the following entry, now decipher it to discover a Water Tribe delicacy.
Message:
63 32 56 68 63 48 4A 31 62 6D 56 66 63 33 52 6C 64 77 3D 3D
Flag Format:
HACKFAX{deciphered_message}
Hint
Those "=" symbols at the end must mean something more...
Solution
1. Convert Hex to ASCII:
63 32 56 68 63 48 4A 31 62 6D 56 66 63 33 52 6C 64 77 3D 3D → c2VhcHJ1bmVfc3Rldw==
2. Decode from Base64 format:
c2VhcHJ1bmVfc3Rldw== → seaprune_stew
Flag
HACKFAX{seaprune_stew}