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Program creates a buffer with 32 random bytes followed by flag data and does a special string comparison agains a user input string. This comparison uses SSE instructions and leaks information about non-matching characters. You can perform a binary search attack character by character to leak the flag.

Full writeup here: [https://ctf.harrisongreen.me/2019/bsidessf-ctf/fastflag/](https://ctf.harrisongreen.me/2019/bsidessf-ctf/fastflag/)

Original writeup (https://ctf.harrisongreen.me/2019/bsidessf-ctf/fastflag/).