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Basic 6

Moving on to the next level…

Well, looks like this guy encrypted the password using some unknown algorithm and the ciphertext is provided to us. Let’s see if we can figure it out!

The ciphertext is : 4g:hh>j?

Let’s try out a sample string, say “aaaa”

Okay, so the algorithm seems to be such that it adds the position of the character to the value. So, we can whip up a quick script to solve this.

Done!

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