Now the first task is to break the Caesar cipher we talked about in the class.
Please proceed to the caesar
folder. You will find the following files after the ls
command:
caesar flag quotes.txt template.py
Your job is to edit the template.py
file. This file runs caesar file, which reads one of the quotes from the quotes.txt
, encrypts it by shifting the text by 3, and returns the ciphertext. You are required to edit the TODO parts to reverse-engineer the plaintext from the ciphertext. Once you're successful, you will get the flag