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CHALLENGE02/ 06

CRYPTO // BEGINNER

Secret Sauce

Recover a repeating XOR key from a predictable message prefix.

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CHALLENGE BRIEF

Brief

A short key was repeated across an intercepted message. The format always begins with ORDER:. Recover the key and decrypt the complete message.

Objective

Recover the four-character repeating ASCII key and use it to reveal the flag.

Cipher
repeating-key XOR
Known prefix
ORDER:
Encoding
hex bytes

INTERACTIVE LAB

Run the lab

YOUR NEXT MOVE

Enter the recovered four-character ASCII key.

OPTIONAL HINTS

Hints

No hints opened. Hints do not affect progress.

    FINAL ANSWER

    ONE LAST STEP

    SUBMIT YOUR FLAG.

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