I had extra time, and really wanted to get into rust development, so i challenged myself to start a new project. One of my friends was in the exact same position and decided to do a simple Caesar’s cipher tool. He suggested that i do one for the Vigenère cipher since both of these ciphers are used in Over The Wire challenges. In fact Krypton has challenges that use both of these ciphers, you can check my walkthrough of Krypton here.

Introduction Over The Wire provides multiple challenges focused on different topics of computer systems. The one which we will solve here is Krypton. This is challenge is focused on cryptography. You can read more about the challenge and how it works here. Levels: Level 0 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6 Level 0 The password is a base64 encoded string. We can use the base64 command.

Introduction Over The Wire provides multiple challenges focused on different topics of computer systems. The one which we will solve here is Bandit. This is focused on SSH communication, bash commands and some basic UNIX concepts. To connect to any of these levels you need 2 things: a username, and a password. Each level has a username in the format bandit<level_number> (without the ‘<’ ‘>’) so for level 0 the username would be bandit0.