Cyber Apocalypse CTF 2022 Writeup — Down the Rabinhole
4 min readMay 21, 2022
The challenge
from Crypto.Util.number import getPrime, isPrime, bytes_to_long
from Crypto.Util.Padding import pad
import os
FLAG = b"HTB{--REDACTED--}"
def getPrimes(coefficient):
while True:
a = getPrime(512)
p = 3 * coefficient * a + 2
if isPrime(p):
break
while True:
b = getPrime(512)
q = 3 * coefficient * b + 2
if isPrime(q):
break
return p, q
def encrypt(message…
