Cryptography Basics

Walkthrough summary

Cryptography Basics TryHackMe walkthrough with 9 answered prompts and lab methodology notes.

Sample prompts covered

• What is the standard required for handling credit card information?
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• What do you call the encrypted plaintext?
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• What do you call the process that returns the plaintext?
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• Knowing that XRPCTCRGNEI was encrypted using Caesar Cipher, what is the original plaintext?
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• Should you trust DES? (Yea/Nay)
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