Hello Comrade...

 Hello Comrade....

 

 We captured a message of the foreign gov trying to communicate about attacking us... one of our techs got this specific and interesting messaging... see if you can decode this:

 

 RkxBR3tSVVNTSUFOX0FTU0VUfQ==

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UPDATE: This was a part of CTF I participated in, back in April. Arkansec's CTF that was at Sparkcon 2025 where I placed 3rd! Part of the CTF was BOYCTF (https://github.com/ShyftXero/byoctf_discord) You can read about it here a really cool system created by my friend Shyft. Basically it's like a BYOB (Bring your own Beer), but you are bringing your own flags. In a normal CTF game, you are dependent on the challenge makers to create challenges, the ones who created the CTF. With BYOCTF you get to, as the CTF player, make your own challenges. And really, that's a huge part of winning and a huge part of why I got 3rd. A very unique addition to any CTF game. Thank you to Arkansec for putting on the awesome CTF! 


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