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✅ WARMUPS - Comprezz

Writeup by: @goproslowyo

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Author: @JohnHammond

Someone stole my S’s and replaced them with Z’s! Have you ever seen this kind of file before? Download the file(s) below.

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$ file comprezz
comprezz: compress'd data 16 bits

$ cat comprezz | uncompress
flag{196a71490b7b55c42bf443274f9ff42b}

Or just use zcat:

$ zcat comprezz
flag{196a71490b7b55c42bf443274f9ff42b}

You can also rename and decompress:

$ mv comprezz comprezz.gz
$ gzip -d comprezz.gz
$ cat comprezz
flag{196a71490b7b55c42bf443274f9ff42b}