Points: 40
Description:
Frogs are known to have excellent eyesight. Being a designer, Kelvin the Frog also has excellent taste for colors. Here's a list of his favorite colors.
Hint:
What does the # do?
Ordinarily, the # would signal that the following characters were part of a hexadecimal RGB color code. Each color in the code, red, green, and blue, would be assigned an integer value from 0 to 255, or 0 to FF in hexadecimal. For example, the first color, #466c61, has a red value of 70, a green value of 108, and a blue value of 97.
However, in this case, the hexadecimal values in the text file also represent an ASCII string. Using Python, you can merge the hexadecimal strings as one and decode it as ASCII.
[!] python3
Python 3.3.2+ (default, Feb 28 2014, 00:52:16)
[GCC 4.8.1] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> hexed = ''
>>> with open('colors.txt', 'r') as f:
... for line in f:
... hexed += line.strip()[1:]
...
>>> hexed
'466c61673a2020746861745f7761735f657a'
>>> import binascii
>>> binascii.unhexlify(hexed.encode('utf-8'))
b'Flag: that_was_ez'Flag: that_was_ez
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