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“MATRIX” by picoCTF

I always thought picoCTF was the simplest CTF, but it seems like “it depends” as usual. This problem...
pugachevJan 11, 2024Jan 12, 2024
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“Spooky License” by Hack The Box

My world will never be the same. This crackme introduced me to angr, which is a Swiss army...
pugachevJan 8, 2024
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“Partial Encryption” by Hack The Box

This is the first crackme I’ve solved that decrypts and executes code at runtime, so I think my...
pugachevJan 4, 2024Jan 8, 2024
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“Wizardlike” by picoCTF

This one was one of the highest-scoring crackmes, so it was supposed to be the hardest. Unfortunately, it...
pugachevJan 2, 2024Jan 2, 2024
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How to generate Ghidra fidb files

While working on one of the crackmes, I discovered that it uses ncurses to “draw” things on the...
pugachevDec 31, 2023Jan 3, 2024
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“OTP Implementation” by picoCTF

What does OTP mean here? “One Time Password”? “Over The Top”? “One True Pairing”? In any case, this...
pugachevDec 26, 2023
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