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Bandit Level 10 → 11

Shubham
Shubham
Cybersecurity Enthusiast

Login: ssh bandit10@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220
Password: FGUW5ilLVJrxX9kMYMmlN4MgbpfMiqey

task​

The password for the next level is stored in the file data.txt, which contains base64 encoded data.

theory lil bit​

  1. Base64: This is a group of binary-to-text encoding schemes that represent binary data in an ASCII string format. It is commonly used when there is a need to encode binary data that needs to be stored and transferred over media that are designed to deal with textual data.
  2. base64 command: This utility is used to encode or decode data.
    • The -d (or --decode) flag is used to transform base64 encoded data back into its original plaintext form.
  3. Identification: You can often recognize Base64 by its character set (A-Z, a-z, 0-9, +, /) and the use of = padding at the end of the string.

solution​

bandit10@bandit:~$ ls
data.txt
bandit10@bandit:~$ cat data.txt
VGhlIHBhc3N3b3JkIGlzIGR0UjE3M2ZaS2IwUlJzREZTR3NnMlJXbnBOVmozcVJyCg==
bandit10@bandit:~$ base64 -d data.txt
The password is dtR173fZKb0RRsDFSGsg2RWnpNVj3qRr

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