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Crypto Failures

How real cryptosystems break: encoding mistaken for encryption, signatures that verify nothing, and keys reused until the plaintext falls out. Decoder-and-pencil labs, no heavy tooling.

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1. Encoding is not encryption 4 min read
2. Signatures that verify nothing, keys reused to death 5 min read

Labs

Medium 30 pts

alg: none means anyone can be admin.

Medium 30 pts

A repeating XOR key is barely a key.

Hard 45 pts

Live padding oracle — building.

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