Level 12 - Find password in a data.txt which is ROT13 encoded (Cryptography)

Description

The goal of this level is to get the password for the next level stored in data.txt which Base64 encoded.

Tech used

• cat
• base64
• grep

Solutions

Run ssh bandit11@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220. Password is dtR173fZKb0RRsDFSGsg2RWnpNVj3qRr

• Show file contents, base64 decode it, grep the string.
  • Run cat data.txt | base64 -d | grep -Eo "\w*$"

Notes

• base64