Speaker UNpreparedness Room - Door
Bushy Evergreen:
Ohai! Bushy Evergreen, just trying to get this door open.
It's running some Rust code written by Alabaster Snowball.
I'm pretty sure the password I need for
./door
is right in the executable itself.Isn't there a way to view the human-readable
strings
in a binary file?
TL;DR - Answer
Location
Just outside the Speaker UNpreparedness room in the Talks Lobby (see map)
Hints
The
strings
command is common in Linux and available in Windows as part of SysInternals.
Solution
The door
binary contains the password in plaintext. Completing this challenge is as simple as:
elf@e31cd7d29570 ~ $ strings door |grep "password"
/home/elf/doorYou look at the screen. It wants a password. You roll your eyes - the
password is probably stored right in the binary. There's gotta be a
Be sure to finish the challenge in prod:
And don't forget, the password is "Op3nTheD00r"
Answer
Op3nTheD00r