charm_quark Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 hi, a "friend" sent me a binary file that is encoded into ASCII, that is a picture ( a jpg file )the hints are in this case it's a jpg file ... all what you now need to figure out what encoder I used to make the conversion ... then use some tool that can convert it back to jpg... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-to-text_encoding, truth be told , i dont know what to do :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueWyvern Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 hi, a "friend" sent me a binary file that is encoded into ASCII, that is a picture ( a jpg file )the hints are , truth be told , i dont know what to do :( can you put the file on megaupload or rapidshare, etc, etc somewhere we could take a look at it? I know to determine file type sometimes you can open a file up (given it's not monstrously huge) and you have enough ram in a program like notepad or edit.. Personally I like Notepad++ and the very first thing you would see is what type it should be. it doesn't always worked... but for telling if a file is a rar, zip,7z, etc worked for me before when some idiot removed the extension, it might work for you in this instance. edit: i forgot to mention your file might just be uuencoded http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuencoding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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