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Advent of Cyber 4 - Day 19
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Question 1
What device can be used to probe the signals being sent on electrical wires between two devices?
Answer: Logic Analyser
Question 2
USART is faster than SPI for communication? (Yea,Nay)
Answer: Nay
Question 3
USART communication uses fewer wires than SPI? (Yea,Nay)
Answer: Yea
Question 4
USART is faster than I2C for communication? (Yea,Nay)
Answer: Nay
Question 5
I2C uses more wires than SPI for communication? (Yea,Nay)
Answer: Nay
Question 6
SPI is faster than I2C for communication? (Yea,Nay)
Answer: Yea
Question 7
What is the maximum number of devices that can be connected on a single pair of I2C lines?
Answer: 1008
Question 8
What is the new baud rate that is negotiated between the microprocessor and ESP32 chip?
Answer: 9600
Question 9
What is the flag that is transmitted once the new baud rate was accepted?
By analyzing Channel 1, we obtain the following baud rate:
By adding Channel 0, we get the response:
When switching the Async Serial Analyzer to 9600bd
we get the following decoded message:
Answer: THM{Hacking.Hardware.Is.Fun}