Книжный червь (Bookworm)

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Task: Decrypt a cipher referencing an American writer's story. Solution: Identified as Gold-Bug cipher from Edgar Allan Poe's story and decoded using the symbol substitution table.

substitution_cipher classical_cryptography gold_bug edgar_allan_poe symbol_cipher literary_cipher

Classical cipher identification from literary hintsGold-Bug cipher symbol substitutionCharacter-by-character decoding

$ ls tags/ techniques/

substitution_cipher classical_cryptography gold_bug edgar_allan_poe symbol_cipher literary_cipher

Classical cipher identification from literary hintsGold-Bug cipher symbol substitutionCharacter-by-character decoding

Analysis

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$ python3 exploit.py --target 192.168.1.1 --port 8080
[*] Connecting to target...
[+] Shell obtained!

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