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BlueHens CTF 2022 MCU – Geoguesser OSINT – Historical Ciphers Writeup

Prompt: This problem brought to you by GRUMBOT Who Framed Jessica?
_JOCRQ{1t_jd5_ir1jr_ll1kcc_a11_n10qv}
Find the location of this photo to use as the key to decode our flag.

I participated in the BlueHens CTF 2022 on the weekend of Oct 28th 2022. While this event was several months ago, I still wanted to share my write-ups from my favorite challenges.

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CTFLEARN Milk’s Best Friend

Prompt: There’s nothing I love more than oreos, lions, and winning. https://mega.nz/#!DC5F2KgR!P8UotyST_6n2iW5BS1yYnum8KnU0-2Amw2nq3UoMq0Y Have Fun 🙂

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CTFLEARN Git Is Good Writeup

Prompt: The flag used to be there. But then I redacted it. Good Luck. https://mega.nz/#!3CwDFZpJ!Jjr55hfJQJ5-jspnyrnVtqBkMHGJrd6Nn_QqM7iXEuc

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CTFLEARN Exif Writeup

Prompt: If only the password were in the image?

https://mega.nz/#!SDpF0aYC!fkkhBJuBBtBKGsLTDiF2NuLihP2WRd97Iynd3PhWqRw You could really ‘own’ it with exif.

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CTFLEARN: BruXOR Writeup

Prompt: There is a technique called bruteforce. Message: q{vpln’bH_varHuebcrqxetrHOXEj No key! Just brute .. brute .. brute … 😀

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CTFLEARN: Don’t Bump Your Head(er) Writeup

Prompt: Try to bypass my security measure on this site! http://165.227.106.113/header.php

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CTFLEARN: Hextroadinary Writeup

Prompt: Meet ROXy, a coder obsessed with being exclusively the worlds best hacker. She specializes in short cryptic hard to decipher secret codes. The below hex values for example, she did something with them to generate a secret code, can you figure out what? Your answer should start with 0x.

0xc4115 0x4cf8

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CTFLEARN: Binwalk Writeup

Prompt: Here is a file with another file hidden inside it. Can you extract it? https://mega.nz/#!qbpUTYiK!-deNdQJxsQS8bTSMxeUOtpEclCI-zpK7tbJiKV0tXYY

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CTFLEARN: POST Practice Writeup

Prompt: This website requires authentication, via POST. However, it seems as if someone has defaced our site. Maybe there is still some way to authenticate? http://165.227.106.113/post.php

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Practical Linux Topics: GnuPG

Today I am going to be looking GnuPG as a continuation of my delve into Practical Linux Topics. As described on https://www.gnupg.org/, GnuPG is a free implementation of OpenPGP which is used to encrypt and sign data and communications using a public/private key infrastructure. It can be used to encrypt and digitally sign emails, encrypt files, and to secure SSH tunnels. In this post I am going to look at some fundamental configuration and usage of GnuPG for encryption.  

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