Challenge 1: Crypto 1 - Hsanokklis/2022-2023-Tech-journal GitHub Wiki

Cyber Command: Our analysts have obtained password dumps storing hacker passwords. After obtaining a few plaintext passwords, it appears that they are all simply encoded using different number bases.

User: Nan

Password ciphertext: 0x73636f7270696f6e (hexadecimal)

Answer: scorpion


User: Kristy

Password ciphertext: c2NyaWJibGU= (base64)

Answer: scribble


User: Stevie

Password ciphertext: = 01110011 01100101 01100011 01110101 01110010 01100101 01101100 01111001 (binary)

Answer: securely


User: Cassie

Password ciphertext: = 01100010 01000111 00111001 01110011 01100010 01000111 01101100 01110111 01100010 00110011 01000001 00111101 (binary into base64)

Answer: lollipop


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