2024 HuntressCTF - Myster
2024-10-08

Summary
Author: Michael Orlino
Someone sent this to me...
such enigma, such mystery:
rkenr wozec gtrfl obbur bfgma fkgyq ctkvq zeucz hlvwx yyzat zbvns kgyyd sthmi vsifc ovexl zzdqv slyir nwqoj igxuu kdqgr fdbbd njppc mujyy wwcoy
Settings as below:
3 Rotor Model
Rotor 1: VI, Initial: A, Ring A
Rotor 2: I, Initial: Q, Ring A
Rotor 3: III, Initial L, Ring A
Reflector: UKW B
Plugboard: BQ CR DI EJ KW MT OS PX UZ GH
Steps
This was a new challenge. I started by googling enigma cipher
and discovered Enigma-Machine. I pasted in the cipher text and mirrored the settings within the challenge and got this response:
I can see the text has odd spacing, so I cleaned up the formatting and have this result:
message wrapped in light hidden deeper out of sight locking it more tight any way your flag is here flag fdfea bcacbebfbadaefbeccaadddbafezzz
After some quick trial and error I found the flag as: flag{fdfeabcacbebfbadaefbeccaadddbafe}
Flag: flag{fdfeabcacbebfbadaefbeccaadddbafe}