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Encoding - UU

Very used by the HTTP protocol

This time we got something that i have never seen before.

UUencoding, the wikipedia page as good information about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuencoding

Thankfully linux has a command for decoding such encoding.

curl http://challenge01.root-me.org/cryptanalyse/ch1/ch1.txt | uudecode
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   161  100   161    0     0    890      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--   894

ls
root-me_challenge_uudeview

cat root-me_challenge_uudeview
Very simple ;)
PASS = ULTRASIMPLE

Or we can use a website such as: