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Another hint regarding this challenge: if you want to find the password, you have to find a special program (hint in the challenge description), which will "calculate" the password instantly. No bruteforce, no dictionary attack, no hybrid attack...

Ok I've found 2 tools on the same site. The one which comes to my mind is only given by the sourcecodes, but it should calculate the password outta the found things. Atm I'm having problems compiling it.

I always compile in cygwin when using windows, it has to work.

The tool compiled fine with mingw, but it always results in an empty password. To make sure I wasn't using it wrong I tried with the parameters from the tool's README, but the password still ends up blank...
If anybody else came across this problem, hints would be helpful!

EDIT: recompiled with VS express 2010 and everything worked fine

Is this challenge solveable purely on linux? I don't have any MS OS.

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Септембар 06, 2018 - 16:12:52

Is this challenge solveable purely on linux? I don't have any MS OS.

It seems you can solve the challenge without the DLL's if you do a harder research for other tools. But these tools still use "windows.h", so I solved it with Windows XP Pro. Maybe somewhen it works without windows, afaics should the code be portable.