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2024 Business CTF - Vault of Hope: Exciting Outpost Recon

Cryptography challenge using known plaintext attack to break XOR-based encryption with SHA-256 key derivation

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2024 Cyber Apocalypse: Dynasty

Reverse a custom Caesar cipher variant with position-dependent shift

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2024 Cyber Apocalypse: Blunt

Exploit weak Diffie-Hellman with small parameters to recover shared secret and decrypt AES-CBC ciphertext

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2024 Cyber Apocalypse: Iced Tea

Identify TEA cipher from DELTA constant and decrypt ECB-mode ciphertext with known key

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2024 Cyber Apocalypse: Permuted

Break Diffie-Hellman over permutation groups using DLP algorithm on permutation cycles

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2024 Cyber Apocalypse: Makeshift

Reverse a trivial string transformation: reverse flag then rearrange groups of three

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2024 Cyber Apocalypse: Primary Knowledge

Exploit RSA implementation using prime modulus instead of semiprime

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HTB Hack The Boo Practice: Hexoding64

Decode a flag split between hex and base64 encoding

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HTB Hack The Boo Practice: SPG

Reverse engineer a password generator to decrypt an encrypted flag

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HTB Hack The Boo Practice: yesnce

Exploit AES-CTR mode with predictable counter and key recovery

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2023 Business CTF: Initialization

Break AES-CTR encryption with nonce reuse vulnerability

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2023 Business CTF: Interception

Exploit weak PRNG in RSA system to decrypt enemy communications

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2023 Business CTF: Vitrium Stash

Forge DSA signatures to access vitalium resource coordinates

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2023 Business CTF: I'm gRoot

Forge Merkle tree signatures to detect a blockchain backdoor

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2023 Cyber Apocalypse: Small sTeps

Exploit RSA with small public exponent e=3 using Coppersmith's attack

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2023 Cyber Apocalypse: Multipage Recyclings

Exploit custom AES ECB implementation with block recycling vulnerability

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2023 Cyber Apocalypse: Perfect Synchronization

Exploit AES ECB mode encryption with known plaintext and partial key recovery

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2023 Cyber Apocalypse: Ancient Encodings

Reverse engineer a multi-layer encoding scheme involving hex conversion and base64

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2022 Hack The Boo: Gonna Lift Em All

Discrete log problem with extremely small prime - trivial brute force attack

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2022 Hack The Boo: Whole Lotta Candy

AES encryption challenge with multiple block cipher modes - exploit ECB mode weakness

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