Category: Cryptography

Level: easy - 10 points

You don’t need to drink in order to solve this challenge.

10 points if your team submits the flag. If you publish the associated source code to solve the challenge on GitHub along with the write-up it’s 5 additional points.

Challenge

Johnny is a system administrator in a large bank. He doesn’t like his job. In a late evening, he encrypted an important key but he cannot remember how he did it. He was obviously drunk. Being drunk and using crypto, it’s usually not a good idea. Early in the morning he found back one file

SHA1

filename

4da131c1c4dbb9bec4eb81f308b9f90183936d80

fe

and a post-it on his desk with the following text:

E6sbNnnKhw/tc