Esrever

I encrypted my flag so that nobody can see it, but now I realize I don’t know how to decrypt it. Can you help me?

Files:

• esrever.py
• esrever.txt

Solution

esrever.py contains 4 functions enc1, enc2, enc3 and enc4. The first step would be to determine how to reverse each of these functions

• enc4 can be reversed by using the same mapping array but assigning in reverse.
• enc3, similar to enc4 can be reversed using the same mapping aray and assiging in reverse.
• enc2 is an xor function and hence is its own reverse.
• enc1 is a caesar shift of a random value and hence needs to be iterated for the range of the random value

The encryptedText and encryptedKey being encrypted with enc1 a hundred times does not matter as the caesar shift can be tested on all values of 0 to 26.

The flag is obtained on reversing each function from the end.

Solution Script:

def enc4rev(text):
	mapping = [23, 9, 5, 6, 22, 28, 25, 30, 15, 8, 16, 19, 24, 11, 10, 7, 2, 14, 18, 1, 29, 21, 12, 4, 20, 0, 26, 13, 17, 3, 27]
	temp = [None]*len(text)
	for i in range(len(text)):
		temp[mapping[i]] = text[i]
	return ''.join(temp)

def enc3rev(text):
    mapping = [28, 33, 6, 17, 7, 41, 27, 29, 31, 30, 39, 21, 34, 15, 3, 5, 13, 10, 19, 38, 40, 14, 26, 25, 32, 0, 36, 8, 18, 4, 1, 11, 24, 2, 37, 20, 23, 35, 22, 12, 16, 9]
    temp = [None]*len(text)
    for i in range(len(text)):
        temp[i] = text[mapping[i]]
    return ''.join(temp)

def enc2rev(text, key):
    k = [key[i % len(key)] for i in range(len(text))]
    return ''.join([chr(ord(text[i]) ^ ord(k[i]) + ord('a')) for i in range(len(text))])

encryptedkey = enc4rev(enc4rev('ieluvnvfgvfahuxhvfphbppnbgrfcrn'))
encryptedtext = enc3rev(enc3rev('»·­ª»£µ±¬¥¼±ºµ±¿·£¦­´¯ª¨¥«¥¦«´¸¦¡¸¢²§¤¦¦¹¨'))
finalres = set()
for j in range(1,26):
	normalkey = bytes.fromhex(''.join([hex(((ord(i) - ord('a') + j) % 26) + ord('a'))[2:] for i in encryptedkey])).decode('ascii')
	tex = enc2rev(encryptedtext, normalkey)
	for k in range(0, 26):
		normaltex = bytes.fromhex(''.join([hex(((ord(i) - ord('a') + k) % 26) + ord('a'))[2:] for i in tex])).decode('ascii')
		finalres.add(normaltex)

for i in finalres:
	if i[0:6] == "csictf":
		print(i)

Flag

csictf{esreverisjustreverseinreverseright}