# The Count
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## Details> Apparently DEADFACE is recruiting programmers, but spookyboi is a little apprehensive about recruiting amateurs. He's placed a password hash in the form of a flag for those able to solve his challenge. Solve the challenge and submit the flag as flag{SHA256_hash}.> > [Link to Thread](https://ghosttown.deadface.io/t/what-programming-needs-are-there/56/4)> > code.deadface.io:50000---
Following the forum thread we see;
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/73170900/137820563-237f6647-b386-40a1-a7e3-ddfc69137e04.png)
Connecting to the shell we see;
```❯ nc code.deadface.io 50000DEADFACE gatekeeper: Let us see how good your programming skills are.If a = 0, b = 1, c = 2, etc.. Tell me what the sum of this word is:
 You have 5 seconds to give me an answer.
Your word is: reconditeToo slow!! Word has been reset!```
We therefore need to write a script to connect to the shell, receive the message and extract the word from it, calculate it's value and send it back to the shell with 5 seconds!
The below code deoes edcatly that!
```pythonimport socket
def get_letter_value(letter):    alphabet_values = {'A':0, 'a':0, 'B':1, 'b':1, 'C':2, 'c':2, 'D':3,                    'd':3, 'E':4, 'e':4, 'F':5, 'f':5, 'G':6, 'g':6,                    'H':7, 'h':7, 'I':8, 'i':8, 'J':9, 'j':9, 'K':10,                    'k':10, 'L':11, 'l':11, 'M':12, 'm':12, 'N': 13,                    'n':13, 'O':14, 'o':14, 'P':15, 'p':15, 'Q':16,                    'q':16, 'R':17, 'r':17, 'S':18, 's':18, 'T':19,                    't':19, 'U':20, 'u':20, 'V':21, 'v':21, 'W':22,                    'w':22, 'X':23, 'x':23, 'Y':24, 'y':24, 'Z':25, 'z':25 }    value = alphabet_values[letter]    return value  
TCP_IP = 'code.deadface.io'TCP_PORT = 50000BUFFER_SIZE = 1024
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)s.connect((TCP_IP, TCP_PORT))
data = s.recv(BUFFER_SIZE)
challenge = data.split()my_word = challenge[-1].decode("utf-8")print("my word is:", my_word)
word_value = 0
for c in my_word:    word_value = word_value + get_letter_value(c)
print("Value of word ", my_word, " is: ", word_value)
answer= (str(word_value).encode())
s.send(answer)
reponse = s.recv(BUFFER_SIZE)print(reponse)
s.close()%  ```
Running the completed script we get;
```❯ python count.pymy word is: reflectiveValue of word  reflective  is:  95b'\nflag{d1c037808d23acd0dc0e3b897f344571ddce4b294e742b434888b3d9f69d9944}\n'```
## flag{d1c037808d23acd0dc0e3b897f344571ddce4b294e742b434888b3d9f69d9944}