Encryption - Crypto 101

• Are SSH keys protected with a passphrase or a password?

passphrase

• What does SSH stand for?

Secure Shell

• How do webservers prove their identity?

certificates

• What is the main set of standards you need to comply with if you store or process payment card details?

PCI-DSS

• What's 30 % 5?

0

• What's 25 % 7

4

• What's 118613842 % 9091

sha256

• Should you trust DES? Yea/Nay

Nay

• What was the result of the attempt to make DES more secure so that it could be used for longer?

Triple DES

• Is it ok to share your public key? Yea/Nay

Yea

• p = 4391, q = 6659. What is n?

29239669

• Who is TryHackMe's HTTPS certificate issued by?

E1

• What algorithm does the key use?

RSA

• Crack the password with John The Ripper and rockyou, what's the passphrase for the key?

delicious

• You have the private key, and a file encrypted with the public key. Decrypt the file. What's the secret word?

Pineapple