🦙 < flag is in flag.txt
Beginner Hint 1 (AI-translated)
- From the problem statement, you can see that the flag is in flag.txt. However, if you try to download flag.txt, the download never finishes.
- This is because the size of flag.txt is extremely large: 8192 PB. In fact, Chrome shows the remaining time as 2,147,483,647 days, so downloading the entire file is practically impossible.
- If you extract source.tar.gz and check the distributed files, you will see that server.py creates a pseudo-large flag.txt.
Beginner Hint 2 (AI-translated)
- Reading the comments in server.py, it says the contents of flag.txt are simply like
Flag is ....................Alpaca{REDACTED}!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. - If you read the
readfunction, you can confirm this behavior and see that the.and!parts are extremely long. - So how can you obtain the flag portion?
Beginner Hint 3 (AI-translated)
- There is a mechanism to download only a part of a file. Try using it.
- This challenge is explained in Japanese on the YouTube channel "Full Weak Engineer"! https://youtu.be/WDETRIsCSHE
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