PatriotCTF 2024 Making Baking Pancakes Writeup

Here's how to solve the PatriotCTF 2024 Making Baking Pancakes challenge. Challenge notes How many layers are on your pancakes? Author: Dylan (elbee3779) nc chal.pctf.competitivecyber.club 9001 Challenge server Connect to the challenge server with Netcat: nc chal.pctf.competitivecyber.club 9001 The challenge server greets you with the following message when you connect: Welcome to the pancake shop! Pancakes have layers, we need you to get through them all to get our secret pancake mix formula. This server will require you to complete 1000 challenge-responses. A response can be created by doing the following: 1. Base64 decoding the challenge once (will output (encoded|n)) 2. Decoding the challenge n more times. 3. Send (decoded|current challenge iteration) Example response for challenge 485/1000: e9208047e544312e6eac685e4e1f7e20|485 Good luck! Challenge: Vm0wd2QyVkhVWGhVYmxKV1YwZDRXRmxVU2xOWFZsbDNXa1JTVjFKdGVEQlpNM0JIWVd4S2MxWnFUbGROYmxGM1ZqQmFTMlJIVmtsalJuQlhWbXh3VVZadE1UUlRNbEpYVW01T2…