August

Solution to Hack The Box Challenge - August

Problem

August left Chris in America. Can you get the flag and reunite them?

Solution

Viewing the flag it doesn't have any sense. There is a hiding clue in the problem. August, Chris, left, an america are keywords.

Searching on the forum the creator throw a more confident clue...

Keyboards. That's the field that august and christopher both worked in. should get the individuals with some google searches and then make your own cipher ((:

So searching...

• August Created the DVORAK keyboard
• Chris Created the QWERTY keyboard

So "August left Chris" might be "DVORAK LEFT QWERTY". Using this tool you can convert it. That gives a Base64 string, only decode and get the flag.