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Bandit 11 Over The Wire

 Lessons Learned

using cyberchef for things like rot13

Logging in

On a kali vm/ linux machine
Type:

ssh bandit11@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220 
IFukwKGsFW8MOq3IRFqrxE1hxTNEbUPR

Completing The Challenge

The Goal:

The password for the next level is stored in the file data.txt, where all lowercase (a-z) and uppercase (A-Z) letters have been rotated by 13 positions

The Solution:

bandit11@bandit:~$ cat data.txt
Gur cnffjbeq vf 5Gr8L4qetPEsPk8htqjhRK8XSP6x2RHh
 
The password is 5Te8Y4drgCRfCx8ugdwuEX8KFC6k2EUu

This is known as rot13 and many free websites exist to solve this issue.
CyberChef is a very good site/tool for this and can be downloaded

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