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Encoding - ASCII

We’re giving a given a string of hex values and we have to find the ascii string.

4C6520666C6167206465206365206368616C6C656E6765206573743A203261633337363438316165353436636436383964356239313237356433323465

We can either use a website that will do it for us like :

https://www.rapidtables.com/convert/number/hex-to-ascii.html

Or we can do it in python

print "4C6520666C6167206465206365206368616C6C656E6765206573743A203261633337363438316165353436636436383964356239313237356433323465".decode('hex')

Or even bash

 echo "4C6520666C6167206465206365206368616C6C656E6765206573743A203261633337363438316165353436636436383964356239313237356433323465" | xxd -r -p;echo

Or fetch it from the page and pass it to xdd.

curl http://challenge01.root-me.org/cryptanalyse/ch8/ch8.txt | xxd -r -p;echo