KryptonOverTheWire

Krypton3

Website: http://overthewire.org/wargames/krypton/krypton2.html

According to the website page, this level involves a Caesar cipher

Let’s login using krypton2 credentials

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Let’s see the contents of the README

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Let’s create the working directory and provide access as mentioned in README

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Let’s create local file containing a string ABC, encrypting this file should give us the offset of Caesar cipher.

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So, ABC translates to MNO, meaning the offset is 12. Let’s use this offset in the ROT13 program we whipped up earlier.

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So, we have our credentials!

Username: krypton3

Password: ************

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