Cryptography Challenge 1 - DW

Prompt

We used to rely on these old TV heroes, but now we have you! Can you decipher these modified catchphrases encoded with number bases?

Answers

Q1 (10 pts) - 01001001 00100000 01100001 01101101 00100000 01000110 01011001 00101110 00100000 01001100 01100101 01110100 01110011 00100000 01100111 01100101 01110100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 01100001 01110100 01110010 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101100 00100001
I am FY. Lets get theatrical!

Q2 (10 pts) - 104 141 162 151 156 147 040 144 165 143 153 040 157 146 040 163 145 143 162 145 164 163 054 040 103 162 165 163 141 144 145 162 040 157 146 040 163 160 151 164 145
Daring duck of secrets, Crusader of spite

Q3 (10 pts) - 53 68 65 20 69 73 20 74 68 65 20 73 6d 6f 6b 65 20 74 68 61 74 20 72 75 6e 73 20 69 6e 20 74 68 65 20 6e 69 67 68 74 21
She is the smoke that runs in the night!

Q4 (10 pts) - VGhleSBjYWxsIG1lIFN0ZWdtdXR0LiBUaGlzIGlzIG15IHBhcnRuZXIgSy5YLg==
They call me Stegmutt. This is my partner K.X.

Q5 (10 pts) - 4d 54 49 30 49 44 45 31 4d 43 41 78 4e 44 55 67 4d 54 63 78 49 44 41 30 4d 43 41 78 4e 44 4d 67 4d 54 51 78 49 44 45 31 4e 43 41 78 4e 54 51 67 4d 44 51 77 49 44 45 31 4e 53 41 78 4e 44 55 67 4d 44 51 77 49 44 45 77 4e 43 41 78 4e 6a 49 67 4d 44 55 32 49 44 41 30 4d 43 41 78 4d 44 45 67 4d 54 55 32 49 44 45 31 4e 69 41 78 4e 44 45 67 4d 44 51 77 49 44 45 78 4e 53 41 78 4e 44 45 67 4d 54 59 30 49 44 45 32 4d 69 41 78 4e 54 63 67 4d 54 55 32 49 44 45 31 4d 53 41 78 4e 44 4d 67 4d 44 55 32 49 44 41 30 4d 43 41 78 4d 6a 51 67 4d 54 55 77 49 44 45 31 4d 53 41 78 4e 6a 4d 67 4d 44 51 77 49 44 45 31 4d 53 41 78 4e 6a 4d 67 4d 44 51 77 49 44 45 31 4e 53 41 78 4e 7a 45 67 4d 44 51 77 49 44 45 32 4d 43 41 78 4e 44 45 67 4d 54 59 79 49 44 45 32 4e 43 41 78 4e 54 59 67 4d 54 51 31 49 44 45 32 4d 69 41 77 4e 44 41 67 4d 54 45 30 49 44 41 31 4e 69 41 78 4d 7a 45 67 4d 44 55 32
They call me Dr. Anna Matronic. This is my partner L.Y.

Steps I Took

Q1 — Went to CyberChef and applied the Magic filter. That gave me the answer.

Q2 — Tried the same approach. That didn’t work, so I added intensive mode, but that did not work either.

I tried this website: https://www.rapidtables.com/convert/number/ascii-hex-bin-dec-converter.html It didn’t work. Realized it was in base 8 I then realized it was in base 8. I used CyberChef with From Octal.

Q3 — I used CyberChef with From Hex.

Q4 — I used CyberChef with From Base64. That encoding is usually easier for me to recognize because of the = padding.

Q5 — This one looked much larger, but it was not much harder. It mostly combined the same decoding steps from the earlier questions.