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Bandit 15 Over The Wire

Lessons learned

using openssl for encrypted connections

Logging in

On a kali vm/ linux machine
Type:

ssh bandit15@bandit.labs.overthewire.org -p 2220
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Completing The Challenge

The Goal:

The password for the next level can be retrieved by submitting the password of the current level to port 30001 on localhost using SSL encryption.

Helpful note: Getting “HEARTBEATING” and “Read R BLOCK”? Use -ign_eof and read the “CONNECTED COMMANDS” section in the manpage. Next to ‘R’ and ‘Q’, the ‘B’ command also works in this version of that command…

The Solution:

bandit15@bandit:~$ openssl s_client -crlf -connect localhost:30001 -servername localhost
...

BfMYroe26WYalil77FoDi9qh59eK5xNr
Correct!
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Thoughts

following the recommendation on the page lead me to feistyduck openssl-cookbook ch-testing-with-openssl, which is a webpage etc. there it showed me how to connect to a server. at that point i wanted to make it more complicated by figuring out what they meant by encryption, before remembering a connection set up using ssl [is already encrypted, so any plaintext sent over that connection should result in data being sent using ssl encryption
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