@IhsanSencan said:
Even the flag format was not normal.
Yeah, it shows the the author didnāt really have a good plan, they just chose some algos and parameters and ran with it.
@IhsanSencan said:
Even the flag format was not normal.
Yeah, it shows the the author didnāt really have a good plan, they just chose some algos and parameters and ran with it.
Anyway I got it, maybe its worst ever crypto challenge in htb.
If need help ? you can send pm.
Yeah, I donāt know man, but I share the same opinion as my friends @R4J @sampriti @xct . How this challenge got accepted is beyond me and Iām really pissed off at whoever tested this challenge. We shouldnāt be mad at the creator, he tried to teach us something. He made a mistake and owned it. But who the ā ā ā ā tested this ā ā ā ā and thought like āoh yea, this is fucking good, lets smash 40pts on top of itā. Well guess what. Itās fucking easy if itās fucking solved with a guide. To all the testers, please at least try the challenges without guide. You guys arenāt perfect, we know that. But donāt ā ā ā ā us over like this.
PS: I have a cool crypto challenge for you guys. Guess the number from 1-1337. Send me a DM with your guess. First blood receives a star sticker that says āmaster at guessingā.
UPDATE: Iām getting a lot of messages of people asking for hints. Here you go: The number is between 1 and 1337.
UPDATE 2: Iām getting a lot of messages whether 1 and 1337 are included. No, they are not.
UPDATE 3: Hereās a hint. Reverse the following piece of code and you will get the flag.
import random
print("HTB{%i}" % random.randint(2, 1337))
while challenge.submitted:
htb.release(challenge)
You may be right, you may be wrong. But you should really support your opinions more politely. Thatās being said, I leave you all alone.
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Sorry, I guess
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My bad. Never thought this could be tagged as spoiler.
What threw me off is that in Waltz you do a certain pattern and then repeat it kind of ābackwardsā, but that never happens here. Youāre just doing the āequivalentā to the forward movement a few times. I honestly donāt think itās a bad challenge, but there could have been more information provided on the steps involved, since at least one of them is found literally through guessing and/or bruteforce.
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Lol it was not a spoiler. It was other text encoded the same way.
THIS JUST WAS THE WOREST CHALLANGE EVER WITH THE WOREST FLAG FORMAT I SEEN
Type your comment> @sampriti said:
Maybe I will create a challenge that requires you to guess the number I thought of in my head between 1 and 1000 and call it information asymmetry. For fucks sake.
ITS 42 ISNāT IT - YOU KNOW IāM RIGHT - GIVE ME THE FLAG NAO
Snake did nothing wrong
is waltz related to music,dance or just completely random
@0xEA31 said:
As you may have noticed in the video, basic Walzer is a repeated sequence of three steps. The teacher calls them āstepā, āsideā, ācloseā.Since easy cryptography is involved, you should map these steps with some kind of basic cypher algorithms.
Looking at the starting position, an educated eye should catch the first āstepā immediately. What about the others? You choose, but choose wisely because, after three steps, you have to be in a different place, but in the same position.
And remember: youāre dancing, come on donāt be shy, let the music flow and continue. After all, the teacher says: āwe can keep that going until the end of the songā. And we do know when the music stops, donāt we?
I hereby want to apologize to the author and the HTB staff for my rage. We shouldnāt have raged this hard about the challenge and expressed ourselves in a more polite way. After all this is just a mistake, and we all make mistakes. Letās not discourage the author from making more challenges! Iām sure he got much more in store than this!
The challenge playtesters need to learn what ācryptoā means. Apart from Optimus Prime, the last 4 crypto challenges released have all been dumb guessing games, and a poor reflection of how fascinating and educational good crypto CTF challenges can be.
Still have no idea, should I try rotation and combinations of all pieces of base64 codes?
A worthy replacement for snake
Any help with this? I have no idea what the hints mean
I dont think this challenge is as bad as the above comments make out. Yes the hints are terrible, and yes Iād prefer more modern crypto challenges, but the actual meat of this challenge practices basic skills.
@WarrenVos - (and any one else having a problem starting) Look for a pattern in the bytes after the first decoding, think about what that might imply
Hello everyone, this is my first posft.
Iām struggling with this challenge, how can I ask for a hint here? Iāve came across some kind of flat that has a heart (<3) but dunno how to continue.
Any help is welcome!