as it says “warm up” Let’s Warm Up is a General Skills challenge worth 50 points.
Description
If I told you a word started with 0x70 in hexadecimal, what would it start with in ASCII?This is an easy exercise, because we can clearly see that 70 is a hex number
there are several ways to solve this problem, I will show you how I did it
Hexadecimal number is a number that uses the digits 0 to 9 and the letters A to F to represent the values 10 to 15. It is often preceded by “0x” to indicate that it is a hexadecimal number.
As you can see, 0x70 is ‘p’. Encompassing this in picoCTF{} yielded the correct flag.
