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HashingJobApp

  • Description: If you want to hash with the best, beat this test!
  • Difficulty: Easy

🔎 Solution​

The challenge provides a set of plaintext strings, and our task is to convert each of them into their corresponding MD5 hashes.
To generate the MD5 hashes, we can use any online MD5 hashing tool (this one). Simply input each plaintext string and retrieve its MD5 hash.

Please md5 hash the text between quotes, excluding the quotes: 'Cary Grant'
Answer: 
eacef35ceac15db2ecaedd6b1b9280dd
eacef35ceac15db2ecaedd6b1b9280dd
Correct.
Please md5 hash the text between quotes, excluding the quotes: 'jelly beans'
Answer: 
cb7d86ece76c57eac5ed18420ca67ea0
cb7d86ece76c57eac5ed18420ca67ea0
Correct.
Please md5 hash the text between quotes, excluding the quotes: 'flat tire'
Answer: 
a230e8cebf5c1e3041796ff021ff8a50
a230e8cebf5c1e3041796ff021ff8a50
Correct.

After correctly submitting the hashes for all three strings, the system returns the flag.

🚩Flag​

picoCTF{4ppl1c4710n_r3c31v3d_3eb82b73}