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Dark_Knight666
Bronze III
Bronze IIIModern 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...
Dark_Knight666Bronze III
Bronze IIIcf123 - You wouldn't happen to know the reason would you by any chance? :-)
cf123Bronze II
Dark_Knight666 The -e is for encryption and the -nosalt is to disable the salt function. I'm not exactly sure why this works, however for one of the earlier labs in the module ("Modern Encryption: Symmetric vs Asymmetric Key Encryption") it has the same commands but with -d for -decrypt so is just utilising the commands from this module and flipping it to be used for encryption rather than decryption.
