2. Great Snakes

Challenge Description:

Modern cryptography involves code, and code involves coding. CryptoHack provides a good opportunity to sharpen your skills. Of all modern programming languages, Python 3 stands out as ideal for quickly writing cryptographic scripts and attacks. For more information about why we think Python is so great for this, please see the FAQ. Run the attached Python script and it will output your flag. Challenge files: - great_snakes.py Resources: - Downloading Python

My Solution:

We will download that great snakes file and inspect it:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import sys
# import this

if sys.version_info.major == 2:
    print("You are running Python 2, which is no longer supported. Please update to Python 3.")

ords = [81, 64, 75, 66, 70, 93, 73, 72, 1, 92, 109, 2, 84, 109, 66, 75, 70, 90, 2, 92, 79]

print("Here is your flag:")
print("".join(chr(o ^ 0x32) for o in ords))

The only thing we should do here is to run this python script.

The Flag:

crypto{z3n_0********}