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Recursion

hackerlab

Task: Decode a 46 MB text file containing recursively Base64-encoded data. Solution: Iteratively decode Base64 50 times until the flag is revealed, exploiting the 33% encoding overhead that caused exponential size growth.

$ ls tags/ techniques/
base64recursive_encodingfile_size_analysisiterative_decodingencoding_overhead
Iterative Base64 decodingFile size reduction analysisEncoding overhead calculation
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