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# 24h@CTF Transmitter Writeup
## Category
Blockchain
## Description
The challenge gives the text:
`0x7BB2B3F29faC32dd86b2B760ca180462b2E08e6E@Ropsten`
The description gives some hints about some important messages mixed with junk messages, communication between sailors during an emergency and the needing to convert some hex to get the flag.
## Writeup
Searching the given text in a search engine we find out that it is the id of a Ropsten Ethereum (crypto-currency based on blockchain) contract, so the blocks are publicly accessible.
Using the website [ropsten.etherscan.io](https://ropsten.etherscan.io) and [searching](https://ropsten.etherscan.io/address/0x7bb2b3f29fac32dd86b2b760ca180462b2e08e6e) the given id, you can find the [first transaction](https://ropsten.etherscan.io/tx/0x4268e5c9b9c87f869753a0cb33078872a84f6860f7d8f2dbbbedf74f910b75fd) to the specified account.
Checking the Logs for each transaction you can find that sometimes the data sections contains a message with only dots and dashes.
Passing through all the transactions and writing down only the payload with dots and dashes you will get the following morse message:
```
....- -.... ....- -.-. ....- .----
....- --... --... -... ..... --...
...-- ...-- ....- -.-. ....- ...--
...-- ----- ....- -.. ...-- ...--
..... ..-. ..... ....- ...-- -----
..... ..-. ....- ..... ...-- --...
....- ---.. ...-- ...-- ..... ..---
....- ..... ..... ..... ....- -..
..... ..-. ..... ---.. ..... ---..
...-- .---- ....- ...-- ..... --...
-.... ---.. -.... ----. ..... --...
...-- ----- -.... ....- ..... -....
-.... -.... --... -..
```
Which decoded into text gives:
`464C41477B57334C43304D335F54305F453748335245554D5F5858314357686957306456667D`
Which decoded from hex to ascii chars give the flag:
`FLAG{W3LC0M3_T0_E7H3REUM_XX1CWhiW0dVf}`
## Flag
`FLAG{W3LC0M3_T0_E7H3REUM_XX1CWhiW0dVf}`
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