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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

OverTheWire Vortex Level 5

This level is a brute-force over a 5 chars MD5 hash. We get the hash from the source code - it is 155fb95d04287b757c996d77b5ea51f7, and with a quick search online, we get the corresponding plain text - rlTf6.
There are lots of online services to crack md5, and there's also Project RainbowCrack which uses the Time-Memory trade-off.
After getting the plain text we can get to the shell:
vortex5@melissa:/vortex$ ./vortex5 
Password: 
6:36
You got the right password, congrats!
$ cat /etc/vortex_pass/vortex6
*****

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