The Birds
by HulkOperator
🚩 CTFs DawgCTF 2025 cryptography
The Birds / DawgCTF 2025
Challenge
The challenge provides us with an image of birds on a rope and asks us to decipher the message.

Reverse searching this image on Google mentions the birds on a wire cipher. This website can be used to encrypt and decrypt messages for this cipher https://www.dcode.fr/birds-on-a-wire-cipher.
Decrypting the ciphertext, we get the message: THEREISNOESCAPE
Flag: DawgCTF{there_is_no_escape}
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