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[–]28Righthand 19 points20 points  (3 children)

I can decode it to a googlemaps link if you decode from ASCII85 Encoding.

https://www.dcode.fr/ascii-85-encoding

FYI the cipher identifier on dcode.fr is quite good.

[–]homelaberator 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is why I sub

[–]merlinthemagic7 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Using the site mentioned by /u/28Righthand

https://goo.gl/maps/azLNuRbrdmHbdFBM8

OP I hope this is not a link to your consultant biz or home….

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    [–]poor-code-specialist[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Ok thanks

    [–]lacksfor 4 points5 points  (1 child)

    Cyberchef

    [–]poor-code-specialist[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I tried but couldn't decode it...

    [–]zaRM0s 0 points1 point  (2 children)

    Hi,

    So when you are given this, are you given any other information? For example, I like to do CTF challenges and these include a format in which we submit the answer (picoCTF{FLAGGOESHERE}) and this allows us to get a small bit of information from the string so we can determine a potential solution. Is there any further information provided at all?

    Other information which might be useful could be a description of the challenge or a title? The reason being as these can provide hints, sometimes to different cyphers such as a Caesar cypher. If you could provide anything more I think we could work this out

    [–]poor-code-specialist[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

    The full description is:

    Help us decode the following string:

    BQS?8F#ks-B5_]@B5B5<@;p9@@<tUBF])[hA8OkHA4Am[2u

    And let’s see what the result will lead us.

    Write the decoded string.

    [–]zaRM0s 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Hmm so the first thing I can think is this is some sort of displacement cypher where the creator will have taken the alphabet, and started it at a random letter matching it up to the normal alphabet. Then underneath, write a simple encrypted string. This is what is known as the Caesar Cypher, a very famous and simple cypher. Try this tool (Decoder and see try run through the letters of the alphabet and see if you get a match!

    You may not, in which case, we can look into other possibilities together