BYUCTF 2024 | Austen Supremacy-writeup
crypto/Austen Supremacy
Description
Lydia loves Jane Austen. In fact, her favorite book is Pride and Prejudice. Her and her friends like to talk about the book together, but recently Lydia has started encoding her messages. Unfortunately Lydia’s friends don’t understand her secret code – could you help them out and identify the secret message?
Flag format -byuctf{secretmessage}
1.1.1 8.9.8 10.2.11 4.14.28 61.2.4 47.10.3 23.7.37 41.12.4 17.6.10 1.1.21
Author:cybercomet
Solution
As the description it looks like the book cipher from the book Pride and Prejudice https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1342/old/pandp12p.pdf
Than I thought that it be either chapter.sentence.word or chapter.paragraph.word But none made sense
Than we thought maybe chap para letter or page para letter
And after trying Chapter.Para.letter we got a meaningful word
Ilovedarcy
So,
flag : byuctf{Ilovedarcy}