The Rosetta Protocol Part II: Pharaoh's Fingerprint
- May 7, 2025
- 1 min read
Updated: May 8, 2025
The message, once extracted, was short: Fourth script: Turing knew. This sent Amina down a rabbit hole. Turing had once proposed that the Rosetta Stone may hold an additional language, one not visible to the ancient eye, but to a future machine.
Her search led her to the archives of King’s College Cambridge, where a legacy FTP server still hosted early digitization notes. Gaining access wasn’t easy. Amina had to exploit a misconfigured guest directory and analyze file metadata to locate an unlisted document titled translation_notes.docx.
Inside was a comment:
"Only the patient will read between the lines."
And a hashed password.
CTF Challenge 2: FTP Enumeration & Cracking Task: Access the translation notes, crack the hash, then connect to the FTP server. Use the password to unlock Protected.zip, which contains the flag.
Hint: Open translation_notes.docx. Inside, you'll find a SHA1 hash
Use Hashcat or John the Ripper with rockyou.txt to crack it.
Use this password to open protected.zip to extract fourth_script.txt.
Inside, you'll find the flag.
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