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The Discrete Logarithm Problem Now that you understand modular arithmetic, we can move on to its applications. In the previous post, we discussed how to perform modular computations. Now, it's time to learn how these computations are used in cryptography. Calculating the remainder in an equation...

What is Modular Arithmetic? Usually, when you want to perform division, you do something like: $$ \frac{3}{5} = 1,(6) \Rightarrow 1\frac{2}{3} $$ But there are some cases when you only need the remainder. $$ \frac{\text{Dividend}}{\text{Divisor}} = \text{Quotient} + \text{Remainder} $$ Where...

Requirements To create an account, you'll need the Authenticator app or any other that supports TOTP (time-based one-time passwords), since I don't want to store this kind of information in my database. :) What's next? Once you have it, go to the sign-up page and check if the nickname you want...

First Part Figure out what the real task of the challenge is. The Hardware Part Based on the given schematic, we have an RPI2040 controller connected to another mysterious chip via the I2C bus. After a quick search on Google to find out what the M24C02-WMN is, I discovered it’s an EEPROM memory....

What is this task even about? I started this challenge by taking a look at Discord, as part of my team had already begun working on it. My first glance at the provided charts led me to think -> 2 charts are probably UART or I2C to be decoded. A quick look at the provided photos -> turns out...

Who called this 'guessy'? This task wasn't very 'guessy' for me because as soon as I opened the included audio recording, I recognized those distinctive sounds. Not long ago, a clip titled "Two AI Agents Start Talking in a Different Language with Each Other" was viral online, with news sites...

Let's play Ok, so we run the provided game and see some NPC. Let's talk to him: Oh, looks like he won't talk to us unless we pay him. Luckily, there was a bank next to him—great! Unfortunately, this bank has only 1000 cash, but it's not a problem as long as we are hackers... ...

First Part Look at the files │>PHISH_MARKET │ docker-compose.yml │ start.sh │ ├───market │ Dockerfile │ market │ wait-for-it.sh │ └───mysql Dockerfile init-db.sql As you may have noticed, there are 2 Docker containers: one with a MySQL database and another...

Get Familiar with the Task In the first step, you have to figure out what the main task in this challenge is. As you may see, there is a text input form that updates the textContent depending on a strange-looking if statement. If you can manage to make this if statement evaluate to true, you'll...