Tag: crypto

ASIS CTF Quals 2015 – Cross Check (Crypto 350)

The flag is encrypted by this code, can you decrypt it? crosscheck.tar.xz Summary: breaking RSA modulos with related primes.

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VolgaCTF Quals 2015 – CPKC (Crypto 400) writeup

cpkc A home-brewed cryptosystem, should be easy to break. Its keyspace seems to be rather large though… challenge.tar Summary: LLL-based attack on NTRUEncrypt-like cryptosystem.

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PlaidCTF 2014 wheeeee writeup

Although it seems like The Plague’s messaging service is secure, there are bound to be bugs in any 20th century crypto system. We’ve recovered a version of the block cipher The Plague implemented. Use their online encryptor tool, at 54.82.75.29:8193, to break the cipher and figure out Plague’s secret plans. NOTE: When the service sends …

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PlaidCTF 2014 parlor writeup

The Plague is running a betting service to build up funds for his massive empire. Can you figure out a way to beat the house? The service is running at 54.197.195.247:4321.

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PlaidCTF 2014 RSA writeup

Our archaeologists recovered a dusty and corrupted old hard drive used by The Plague in his trips into the past. It contains a private key, but this has long since been lost to bitrot. Can you recover the full key from the little information we have recovered?

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Boston Key Party CTF – Differential Power (Crypto 400)

we hooked up a power meter to this encryption box. we don’t know the key. that’s what we want to know. you can encrypt any string of 8 characters on the service http://54.218.22.41:6969/string_to_encrypt encrypt.asm chall source (released after ctf)

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Olympic CTF 2014 GuessGame (300)

Be careful, it’s cheating! nc 109.233.61.11 3126 Summary: discrete logarithm with group oracle

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Olympic CTF Sochi 2014 Registration is Open

Let there be Olympics MSLC proudly presents…Alright, do we even need words here? Game starts: February 7th, 2014 16:14 UTC (yeah yeah, those Sochi number freaks… it’s 20:14 in MSK timezone) Game ends: February 9th, 2014 16:14 UTC Sign up: https://olympic-ctf.ru/ Prize set: 1500 USD, 1000 USD, 500 USD. Expect decent tasks. Twenty of them.

Sudden CTF syndrome

Happy new 2014 and merry Orthodox Christmas if you’re religious ;-D Maybe you already know hack you and hack you too, so I won’t even say that hack you is an individual CTF that we originally held for our university freshmen and opened it for everyone interested in the world. Couple days after this New …

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Defcon CTF Quals 2013 – All Web Challenges (3dub)

Summary: 3dub (1) – babysfirst: SQLite SQL injection 3dub (2) – badmedicine: Stream cipher bit flipping 3dub (3) – hypeman: Rack/Sinatra session secret disclosure 3dub (4) – rememberme: Bruteforce 3dub (5) – worsemedicine: Block cipher bit flipping

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PHD CTF 2013 Hackskell (500)

We’ve got a screenshot of some encryption, here’s the text transcribed. Please say what’s there. Summary: a couple of modular equations

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PHD CTF 2013 from hell import crypto (100)

Decrypt the message: 7y9rr177sluqv1r4pw Hint: $ at

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PHD CTF 2013 ReStART (400)

We heard hellman encrypted the flag using his super secure keygen. Break it! Summary: RSA with the lower half of the secret exponent bits leaked.

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PlaidCTF 2013 Blech (Crypto 200)

You get arbitrary code execution…. as long as it’s code we approve of. Source available at blech.py Service running on 54.234.73.81 port 1234 blech.py Summary: RSA cube root attack

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Gits ctf 2013 Crypto 500

Crypto 500 file Summary: breaking cipher

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