Readme.md

Detective

Author: Adarsh Kishore
Flag: CTF{@ll-y0U_neEd}

Problem Statement

Sir Arthur wrote the Hound of B____

Hint

1. There were two people, Watson and ?
2. Fill in the blanks :)

Solution

This problem relies on the Open Source Software called Sherlock which is available as the Python script here. Use this to search for askerville

We note the username on GitHub, which is a fake profile I created. It has a single repository called commit. It has six branches, all of which have a README.md and a nothing.txt. In branch br4,

if we view the commit history of nothing.txt

and open it to view changes

we get the flag.