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ankush82
Bronze I
Bronze IModern Encryption: Demonstrate your skills
I am in the final lab of this collection and the step 3 I need to encrypt the file using aes 256 encryption using the following command and similar other commands I am using for setup 4 & 5 however t...
autom8on
Bronze III
Bronze IIIThe lab has changed a little since I last looked at it in September 2020 - but I've just worked through my notes and completed it without any issue - so it seems to be working OK.
For step 5 - you should be passing a "-k" argument with the password (key), as per the instructions in plaintext_3.txt?
- autom8on
Not sure if you're also missing a "-e"? Won't the "-d" force it to try and decrypt rather than encrypt?
My command line for Q5 was:
openssl enc -e -des-ede3-cbc -in plaintext_3.txt -out plaintext_3.enc -k ShowMeHow2Encrypt -nosalt -pbkdf2
