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RingZero CTF - Forensics – Public Key Recovery


RingZero CTF - Forensics – Public Key Recovery
Objective:
Get the public key given the private key
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
MIICXgIBAAKBgQDwkrxVrZ+KCl1cX27SHDI7EfgnFJZ0qTHUD6uEeSoZsiVkcu0/
XOPbz1RtpK7xxpKMSnH6uDc5On1IEw3A127wW4Y3Lqqwcuhgypd3Sf/bH3z4tC25
eqr5gA1sCwSaEw+yBxdnElBNOXxOQsST7aZGDyIUtmpouI1IXqxjrDx2SQIDAQAB
AoGBAOwd6PFitnpiz90w4XEhMX/elCOvRjh8M6bCNoKP9W1A9whO8GJHRnDgXio6
/2XXktBU5OfCVJk7uei6or4J9BvXRxQpn1GvOYRwwQa9E54GS0Yu1XxTPtnBlqKZ
KRbmVNpv7eZyZfYG+V+/f53cgu6M4U3SE+9VTlggfZ8iSqGBAkEA/XvFz7Nb7mIC
qzQpNmpKeN4PBVRJBXqHTj0FcqQ5POZTX6scgE3LrxVKSICmm6ungenPXQrdEQ27
yNQsfASFGQJBAPL2JsjakvTVUIe2JyP99CxF5WuK2e0y6N2sU3n9t0lde9DRFs1r
mhbIyIGZ0fIkuwZSOqVGb0K4W1KWypCd8LECQQCRKIIc8R9iIepZVGONb8z57mA3
sw6l/obhfPxTrEvC3js8e+a0atiLiOujHVlLqD8inFxNcd0q2OyCk05uLsBxAkEA
vWkRC3z7HExAn8xt7y1Ickt7c7+n7bfGuyphWbVmcpeis0SOVk8QrbqSNhdJCVGB
TIhGmBq1GnrHFzffa6b1wQJAR7d8hFRtp7uFx5GFFEpFIJvs/SlnXPvOIBmzBvjU
yGglag8za2A8ArHZwA1jXcFPawuJEmeZWo+5/MWp0j+yzQ==
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----



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Public key = md5(base64 blob only) MD5 2 first bytes are 0x42f5
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Solution:

Alright so we need to generate the public key with the given private key and the md5 the blob ( Bits between the header and footer) and submit that to get the key

First let’s get that public key

root@kali:~/Desktop# openssl rsa -in privatekey.txt -out public.txt -pubout

This is just using openssl to pop out a public key for the given private key

-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQDwkrxVrZ+KCl1cX27SHDI7Efgn
FJZ0qTHUD6uEeSoZsiVkcu0/XOPbz1RtpK7xxpKMSnH6uDc5On1IEw3A127wW4Y3
Lqqwcuhgypd3Sf/bH3z4tC25eqr5gA1sCwSaEw+yBxdnElBNOXxOQsST7aZGDyIU
tmpouI1IXqxjrDx2SQIDAQAB
-----END PUBLIC KEY-----

Now we need to get the md5 hash for the public key

I just used this website to give the md5

https://www.md5hashgenerator.com/

Your Hash: 42f51df8b6a2bafa824c179a38066e5d
Your String: MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQDwkrxVrZ+KCl1cX27SHDI7EfgnFJZ0qTHUD6uEeSoZsiVkcu0/XOPbz1RtpK7xxpKMSnH6uDc5On1IEw3A127wW4Y3Lqqwcuhgypd3Sf/bH3z4tC25eqr5gA1sCwSaEw+yBxdnElBNOXxOQsST7aZGDyIUtmpouI1IXqxjrDx2SQIDAQAB

Now submit this to the question   and get the flag


FLAG-9869O2dQ43d1r116kfD0Sj5n


You can also generate the md5 from bash

root@kali:~/Desktop# cat public.txt | tail -n 5 | head -n 4 | tr -d '\n' | md5sum > test.txt
root@kali:~/Desktop# cat test.txt
42f51df8b6a2bafa824c179a38066e5d  -

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