Campaigns / Proof of Tampering / Courtroom Hash

Courtroom Hash

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Architect

ahonore

Difficulty

4/5

ETA

20 min

The final evidence packet contains a short ciphertext and a note from the forensic lead:

  • Pick three words recovered from earlier stages.
  • Concatenate them as the Vigenère key.
  • Lowercase, no separators.

Use the relevant recovered words from earlier stages as a Vigenère key, then decrypt the packet. The flag is the recovered phrase in lowercase, with words separated by underscores.

cipher = gviiysfjegwcwaceef
cipher_system = Vigenere
alphabet = a=0, b=1, ..., z=25

◆ Input solution

◇ Stage cleared

◆ Sealed message