Login

  • ssh : ssh bandit10@bandit.labs.overthewire -p 2220
  • password : FGUW5ilLVJrxX9kMYMmlN4MgbpfMiqey

Task :

  • the password is inside a data.txt which is a base64 encoded file

Theory

  • Base64 is a binary-to-text encoding scheme. It can often be recognized by equal signs at the end of the data. However, this is not always the case. Linux has a command called base64 that allows for encoding and decoding in Base64. For decoding, we need to use the flag -d.

Solution

  • i decoded the file with :
base64 -d data.txt