# DawgCTF 2020 – Where did the spaces go?
* **Category:** misc* **Points:** 100
## Challenge
> -.--.---...--....-.--...-.-----..-...--.---..--...-.--...-...-..-......----..-...-........--.-.-..--..-...-..-......----...--..-...-..-.....-.-.---.-.----.> > Note: this one is /slightly/ out of flag format, but it's still very clear when you get it. Flag will be accepted as it is, or altered to fit in format.> > author: pleoxconfusa
## Solution
The reported code is not Morse; a Morse code without spaces is very difficult to crack and analyzing that code you can discover that Morse representation of `DAWGCTF` string is completely absent.
Some telegraph codes have fixed length representation for each char, one of them is *Baudot*, with chars represented by 5 binary numbers each.
The given string is 155 chars long, so it is sufficient to convert the original string into binary.
```-.--.---...--....-.--...-.-----..-...--.---..--...-.--...-...-..-......----..-...-........--.-.-..--..-...-..-......----...--..-...-..-.....-.-.---.-.----.
01001000111001111010011101000001101110010001100111010011101110110111111000011011101111111100101011001101110110111111000011100110111011011111010100010100001```
Then to use this [Baudot code decoder online](https://www.dcode.fr/baudot-code) to obtain the flag.
```DAWGCTFBAUD0T1SN0TM0RSE```