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autom8on
Bronze III
14 days agoThe 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
Bronze III
14 days agoNot 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