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Hashing - Crypto 101

TryHackMe16 answered prompts

Hashing - Crypto 101 TryHackMe walkthrough with 16 answered prompts and lab methodology notes.

Prompts and answers

  • Is base64 encryption or encoding?
    encoding
  • What is the output size in bytes of the MD5 hash function?
    16
  • Can you avoid hash collisions? (Yea/Nay)
    Nay
  • If you have an 8 bit hash output, how many possible hashes are there?
    256
  • Crack the hash "d0199f51d2728db6011945145a1b607a" using the rainbow table manually.
    basketball
  • Crack the hash "5b31f93c09ad1d065c0491b764d04933" using online tools
    tryhackme
  • Should you encrypt passwords? Yea/Nay
    Nay
  • How many rounds does sha512crypt ($6$) use by default?
    5000
  • What's the hashcat example hash (from the website) for Citrix Netscaler hashes?
    1765058016a22f1b4e076dccd1c3df4e8e5c0839ccded98ea
  • How long is a Windows NTLM hash, in characters?
    32
  • Crack this hash: $2a$06$7yoU3Ng8dHTXphAg913cyO6Bjs3K5lBnwq5FJyA6d01pMSrddr1ZG
    85208520
  • Crack this hash: 9eb7ee7f551d2f0ac684981bd1f1e2fa4a37590199636753efe614d4db30e8e1
    halloween
  • Crack this hash: $6$GQXVvW4EuM$ehD6jWiMsfNorxy5SINsgdlxmAEl3.yif0/c3NqzGLa0P.S7KRDYjycw5bnYkF5ZtB8wQy8KnskuWQS3Yr1wQ0
    spaceman
  • Bored of this yet? Crack this hash: b6b0d451bbf6fed658659a9e7e5598fe
    funforyou
  • What's the SHA1 sum for the amd64 Kali 2019.4 ISO? http://old.kali.org/kali-images/kali-2019.4/
    186c5227e24ceb60deb711f1bdc34ad9f4718ff9
  • What's the hashcat mode number for HMAC-SHA512 (key = $pass)?
    1750