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Modern Encryption: Demonstrate Your Skills (Q9)
Maybe I'm over/under-thinking this (likely) or maybe there's an issue with this lab (less likely) but I'm struggling on Q9. I've successfully encrypted the file in Q5 and have run the appropriate co...
Checking my notes (it's been a while, so apologies if anything has changed since I last looked) - the command I used was:
openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -in encrypted_file_AES.enc -nosalt -pbkdf2 -k {password_from_aircrack} -a
Not sure about passing it using "-pass pass:"?!?
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AdvocateChecking my notes (it's been a while, so apologies if anything has changed since I last looked) - the command I used was:
openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -in encrypted_file_AES.enc -nosalt -pbkdf2 -k {password_from_aircrack} -a
Not sure about passing it using "-pass pass:"?!?
Wow, thank you. The -pass pass:"xxx" is the equivilant to the -k xxx command but it was the -a option I was missing. Didn't think about needing to Base64 decode it while decrypting. Thanks again
