Questions tagged [encryption]

Process of encoding information such that decoding requires the knowledge of some secret (a key). This tag covers questions about obfuscated and encrypted programs, or tools, but higher level questions may get better answers on Cryptography Stack Exchange.

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How to identify encoding algorithm used

I'm using a calendar application, and each date is encoded. I would like to know which algorithm has been used to do this. Example: I have a date: 05-10-2023 ('mm-dd-yyyy') and it's encoded string is ...
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I want to learn how to program by orienting myself to the task of reverse engineering

I have to learn programming from scratch and I want to orient my learning in order to be able to reverse engineer to break obfuscators. It would be helpful if you could recommend me what languages, ...
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How to read the content of these files?

I am looking for a way to read the content of these two files. If that is possible, please let me know. Google Drive link for the files
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How to decrypt query string of an url

I need to decrypt the encoded part of query string i.e. Q7eM0euncHNyrhJPjN06lw== and sWmYdMUi01BJplzumEaxTw== from the following urls? https://eregistration.gov.bd/deed-check/view-deed-summary?...
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can sha1 hash of file converted to sha2 hash?

I have a phone database /data/user/0/com.miui.gallery/databases/gallery.db containing information such as exif data and file name. there is a column sha1 containing value ...
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Decrypt the cookies stored by the MS Teams desktop client

I am creating a digital forensic tool that gets all data of user from different platforms. I successfully have done extraction for Teams website but I am unable to do so for the desktop app. So far, I ...
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Extract assets images from a games APK [closed]

I'm trying to remove some images from an android game, but when I try to view them in a hexadecimal viewer I see that they don't contain a PNG header, so I can't view them through the python PIL ...
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Reverse Engineering CTF help

I am having trouble figuring out this microcorruption challenge in the link below: https://microcorruption.com/debugger/Halifax Basically, the 0x7f interrupt has been disabled so I must reenable it ...
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Reversing an RSA function throws pkcs decoding error

I'm working my way through reversing a toy challenge, and I find myself stuck. The app is pretty simple, it spits out a blob of text (e.g. "3b880a90e476d66569d9d5dfb5cd755af3f..."). Dumping ...
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Looking for some help for decoding a signal from IR remote

The following signal has been captured from a remote that I suspect code for at least 3 things: the ID: 107, the item: 1, and the color. I didn't change the ID and item here (although I could do so ...
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Reverse-engineering 24-bit to make the lock system recognize NFC cards as their own

I own a lock system that uses SRI512 cards. My supplier (manufacturer of the locks) sells the cards at a very expensive price, so I decided to buy them online. Once they arrived, when I tried to write ...
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Find out used encryption in an SQLite database

Is it possible to see from a string which encryption an SQLite database uses? Let's say, I can open the database and see this: O45dTrA6NKG6SYeCENMwV7nxp66HR9lbhK12NGHgVnzEhebMjMJUhTmConk= - how do I ...
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How would I decode this XOR Cipher

I have been given a XOR Cipher which is a bunch of hexidecimal looking charcters. This cipher is: fa ce fd d3 fa df ed d3 fa ce d3 d3 fa de df d3 fa de df d3 fa de f9 d3 fa ce f9 d3 fa de f1 d3 ...
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Where can I find the hashing algorithm in source code?

When I submit login credentials in an Android Application it POSTs an encrypted string to an API endpoint. For example, if I enter the following email & pass : "abc@abbc.com:abc" it ...
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Reversing encrypted file with unknown extension

Hello to everyone in RE section! I have a binary file with questionable extension(meaning idk if its exe/dll). Multiple variations of this file can be acquired throught connection to remote CDN via ...
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Identifying the source of encryption used by UDP packets in a PCAP file

I have a PCAP file (mediafire link to the file) which basically represents packet captures between 2 machines running the same game connected to each other via LAN inside RPCS3 using RPCN. One of ...
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Encoding scheme identification of the following communication message

I'm trying to RE an app for educational purposes. So here is the behavior of the app. When the app starts, it communicate with a server in plain tcp and based on those tcp messages, it either work as ...
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Where can I find the encryption algorithm for this POST request in an Android APP?

I have an Android app for which I need to mock an API call outside of that environment. I successfully killed the certificate pinning on this app with Frida in order to access the URL and more, but ...
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Password encryption when transferring from master to PLC

So, there is a PLC and a SoftMaster program to work with it. The PLC works according to the XGFenet protocol. When connecting to the PLC for the first time in SoftMaster, a password must be entered. ...
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Extracting ZTE F670L router's config.bin file

I want to enable telnet in my router (ZTE F670L V9.0.11P1N20D), So, I backup my router and i have a file config.bin, Size 23.5KB. I fired up kali and when i issue this command: $ file config.bin ...
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Where can I find the encryption algorithm in source code?

When I submit a Customer Reference ID in an Android Application it POSTs an encrypted string to an API endpoint. For example, if I enter the following CR ID : "SR-54585482" it POSTs the ...
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How to decode/decrypt/decipher an unknown 83 bytes long UDP payload?

I have an unknown 83 bytes long payload which I would like to decode/decrypt/decipher… I got an alarm system from vendor www.jablotron.com, an old device, but it works perfectly. It’s JA-63 with a LAN ...
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Decoding API response of unknown encoding?

I'm using Proxyman to inspect the api requests of an app I use. Most of the data is returned in plain JSON blobs but there is one response which is returning data encoded/encrypted. How can I go ...
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Decrypting my router config backup file

so I have this ONT router/mode (ZTE F660) provided to me by the ISP, it's interface contains very little settings and I wanted to see if I can get anything useful from it's config backup file. The ...
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is it possible to get code out of chipset through reverse engineering?

for example, encryption/decryption mechanism was inbuilt in a chip, to get the code that performs this mechanisms, is there some ways you can get this code through reverse engineering? what tools and ...
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Issue in opening a file type after unzipping

I downloaded a file from this link https://storage.cloud.google.com/gresearch/smallcnnzoo-dataset/cifar10.tar.xz, and I successfully downloaded the archive file.I unzipped it using 7-Zip. After ...
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Decrypting .PNG files from Chinese mobile game

Amateur here. I'm working on decrypting a couple of .PNG files extracted from an .apk of a Chinese One-Punch Man mobile game. They're identified as .PNGs by Windows, but can't be opened by any ...
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How can I decrypte the data in this SQLite Database file

I have this SQLite Database file https://we.tl/t-RwKqYyS3D7 When I open it in notepad++, I got some decoded strings. I was trying to clean it and show only the strings without the symboles but then I ...
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where can i find decryption key inside of the dll file?

I am testing a dll file , in a C# console app , and by the looks of it the dll file sends a web request with encrypted and then encoded values to a remote server. after intercepting and analyzing the ...
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How to create an algorithm in C...(or C# or C++, basically in "a programming language")

After a LOT of sending challenges and recording the responses I've 'broken' the "encryption" in my car's immobiliser...the reason for doing it is so I can use the engine and transmission in ...
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The Logic Of Incremental Data on Serial Communication Encoding

These are the serial communication reverse values. I am trying to understand the logic behind this. I am pretty sure that 2 bytes represent 1 byte(high byte and low byte), values are correct. I tried ...
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Java Help Understanding RSA Encrypt/Decrypt file and SD card

I was directed this way from the main superuser site: I have zero experience with Java or Android apps (I have coding experience in C) and tried reverse engineering a [now defunct/unsupported] app ...
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How to find encrypted strings in an executable?

I am trying to reverse engineer an executable. I am using Process explorer to dump all strings present in the exe image, and from the process's RAM when it is running. The two dumps return a ...
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Find Decryption algorithm of an encryption algorithm

I recently work on an algorithm that encrypt some data with 8 byte length. I worked hard and I successful to get this algorithm, but I need decryption of this algorithm. How I can invert it? I guess ...
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Best way to protect source code of exe that being loaded by Assembly.Load method

I am protecting an exe that being loaded by Assembly.Load... This makes everything difficult because most obfuscators causing it to not work properly or not load at all. I used confuserEx Ameteurz ...
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Is this executable packed, encrypted or what?

I have an executable that I'd like to patch, but I'm very new to RE. I some have assembly knowledge of x86 as first learned language last year, but not of this one: PowerPC (in this case is PPC32), ...
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ZTE AES-256-CBC Encrypted backup config file

i tried router pass view tool on (a closed source one) it's able to decrypt the older version of it V3.1. tested on two routers of it and it gave me this output Encrypted Data Start Position: 227 ...
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How does one start with reversing router config encryption?

There is not enough info on the web from what I have seen. Most write ups/guides/blog-posts are like this: They provide only the decrypt/encrypt script-tool with how to run it and nothing else They ...
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Need Help with decryption backup config.bin file "ZTE ZXHN H267N v1.1"

hi i'm trying to decrypt config.bin file from new router I got from my company, I tried a tool found on github "https://github.com/mkst/zte-config-utility" I got this ERROR: python3 examples/...
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Figuring out encryption technique of network connection

I am trying to reverse a virtualized program (using VMProtect 3.4.x). I decided to hook certain functions of the program such as the winsocks library send() and recv(). This is how it looks like: [...
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Is it possible to somehow derive the decryption key for iOS app binaries?

While disassembling an IPA downloaded directly from the App Store CDN, I noticed that the binary had an unusually large entropy. Looking this occurrence up confirmed my suspicion that it was encrypted,...
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Need help with ZTE router config.bin file decryption and encryption

bin file extracted from a ZXHN H168N V3.1. RouterPassView is able to decrypt the file successfully but the tool can't re-encrypt the file, it gave me some info about the method used to decrypt here ...
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Looking for encoding of SVG data

I have some SVG images stored in a database; but I am not able to find out which encoding is used. Unfortunately, I don't have the exact SVG plain text available. The given examples "probably&...
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Reverse engineering algorithm for get keys

I have 2 groups of 4 byte and from this i have to get a key that have 6 byte. Im trying to get the algorithm but i cant in any way. The 1st group have only one bit different from the 2nd one. Idk if i ...
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Trying to decode the Ontario Driver's License #

**The Ontario Driver's License follows the below format:** LXxxx-FFFMY-YMMDD Where: L is the first letter of your last name X is a numeric encoding of the last name (See Chart 1 below) xxx is a ...
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Encrypted firmware, need some hints

I'm relatively new to firmware reverse engineering but it has been a very interesting journey, loved it! I am currently trying to crack open the firmware of my Panasonic Lumix DC-G9 camera to see if I ...
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Android packageInfo signature

Are there anyways I can learn what packageInfo.signatures[0] is so I can use it to apply the same algorithm in Python. To further explain: private static SecretKeySpec a(Context context) { ...
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help about methodology

I am a beginner in reverse engineering. For a challenge I need to reverse a code in python this code use enigma algorithm : To found the good configuration to decode the enigma code received. The ...
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Trying to replicate encryption of an android app

I was trying to replicate/copy the encryption of an android app which uses CryptoJS with sha256 encryption as having seen in the source code of the android app. fingerprinting the app, it was built ...
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Which value is used for verifiying Zip password?

I am studying the way that can be used to check if a given password for an encrypted zip file is correct or not. I see this link: How does a zip file detect a correct password? In the answer of this ...
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