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Dark_Knight666
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3 months ago
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Modern Encryption: Demonstrate Your Skills

Hello, I am a little stuck on Q3 for this lab and would really appreciate any help I can get.  So I have followed the steps as required by encrypting the file - plaintext_1.txt and set the password...
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  • cf123's avatar
    cf123
    3 months ago

    Hi Dark_Knight666​, I also struggled on this one. You need to change the -a to -e and -salt to -nosalt (see full command below)

    openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -e -pbkdf2 -nosalt -in plaintext_1.txt -out plaintext_1.enc

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autom8on
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3 months ago

As per the tool output, try adding "-pbkdf2" to your command line arguments... 

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Dark_Knight666
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3 months ago

Hello autom8on,

Many thanks,

I tried as you suggested but still not getting the token_1.txt.

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    cf123
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    3 months ago

    Hi Dark_Knight666​, I also struggled on this one. You need to change the -a to -e and -salt to -nosalt (see full command below)

    openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -e -pbkdf2 -nosalt -in plaintext_1.txt -out plaintext_1.enc

    • Dark_Knight666's avatar
      Dark_Knight666
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      3 months ago

      Hi cf123​ - Thanks for your help. This question really did keep me up at night for a prolonged period :-) 

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        cf123
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        2 months ago

        Dark_Knight666​ no worries, glad I could help! Same here, only reason I saw your post was because I had been looking for the same answer before figuring it out😂