GuidePoint Security CTF 2021 - SHA-512 (misc)

1 minute read Published: 22 Oct, 2021

Writeup for the Guidepoint 2021 CTF SHA-512 misc challenge

Guidepoint Security CTF 2021 - SHA-512 (misc)

For this challenge we are given a truecrypt container to which we do not know the password. We only need to run truecrack on it to get the password and mount the container to get the flag.

kali@kali:~/ctf/sha512$ truecrack -t secret.tc -k sha512 -w /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt
TrueCrack v3.6
Website: https://github.com/lvaccaro/truecrack
Found password:         "gigabyte"
Password length:        "9"
Total computations:     "28354"