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tl;dr reverse the tapereader program to figure out how the 8-byte checksum is computed for each 80-byte line in the tape file (it turns out to be a kind of rolling hash), use a meet-in-the-middle attack to brute-force missing bytes of the flag in the tape file

Original writeup (https://galhacktictrendsetters.wordpress.com/2018/07/01/google-ctf-2018-tape/).