HashingJobApp

Tags: General Skills, hashing, nc, shell, python
Author: LT ‘syreal’ Jones

Description

If you want to hash with the best, beat this test!
nc saturn.picoctf.net 64710

Hints

1. You can use a commandline tool or web app to hash text
2. Press Ctrl and c on your keyboard to close your connection and return to the command prompt.

   Approach

   Open terminal and connect to the server with nc saturn.picoctf.net 64710
   MD5 hashing is a method of generating a 32 character long sequence of hexadecimal characters based on some math. We don’t care too much about the details and there are already online hash generating tools

   Please md5 hash the text between quotes, excluding the quotes: 'hair transplants'
   Answer:
   5b416c0db26c7e0478766fc51931a3ab
   5b416c0db26c7e0478766fc51931a3ab
   Correct.
   Please md5 hash the text between quotes, excluding the quotes: 'bad dogs'
   Answer:
   60cc96ffdc458c98395d6e7b6878a6e9
   60cc96ffdc458c98395d6e7b6878a6e9
   Correct.
   Please md5 hash the text between quotes, excluding the quotes: 'Japanese'
   Answer:
   f32ced6a9ba164c4b3c047fd1d7c882e
   f32ced6a9ba164c4b3c047fd1d7c882e
   Correct.
   picoCTF{4ppl1c4710n_r3c31v3d_91ab255f}
   

   Flag

   picoCTF{4ppl1c4710n_r3c31v3d_91ab255f}