https://academy.hacking-lab.com/events/6/challenges/47
After googling we found out about bacon cipher in which two typefaces are used to encode a hidden message with a binary alphabet. The text is written in two type faces: italic and normal.
A 00000
B 00001
C 00010
D 00011
E 00100
F 00101
H 00111
I 01000
K 01010
L 01011
M 01100
N 01101
O 01110
P 01111
R 10001
S 10010
T 10011
U 10100
V 10101
W 10110
X 10111
I interpreted italic characters as 1
and non-italic as 0
. The text had to be transformed to ones and zeros. Leading to a message
SANTALIKESHISBACONBUTALSOTHISBACONTHEPASSWORDISHVXBACONCIPHERISSIMPLEBUTCOOLXREPLACEXWITHBRACKETSANDUSEUPPERCASEFORALLCHARACTER
More readable with added spaces:
SANTA LIKES HIS BACON BUT ALSO THIS BACON THE PASSWORD IS HVXBACONCIPHERISSIMPLEBUTCOOLX REPLACE X WITH BRACKETS AND USE UPPERCASE FOR ALL CHARACTER
Resulting in
HV{BACONCIPHERISSIMPLEBUTCOOL}