Tags: cryptography 

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**How to work enc function:**

1. Encode string to base64

2. Create a new string from the encoded one by applying xor to each character:

`new [i] = base64_encoded [i] ^ base64_encoded [i + 1]`

3. Convert the result to hex

**How to work decode:**

1. Convert the hex string to bytes (`binascii.unhexlify`)

2. Know first char

1. If you don't know it just repeat algorithm for each base64 alphabet's chars

3. `base64_encoded [i + 1] = base64_encoded [i] ^ new [i]`

solution script: [solution.py](https://github.com/wetox-team/writeup/blob/master/hacktivitycon/tyrannosaurus_rex/solution.py)

flag is `flag{tyrannosauras_xor_in_reverse}`

Original writeup (https://github.com/wetox-team/writeup/blob/master/hacktivitycon/tyrannosaurus_rex/).