Huntress CTF 2024 – No need for Brutus

We have this seemingly unreadable string. The proper way to do this is probably to look up who Brutus is, see he was involved with the murder of Julius Caesar, look up Caesar, find the Caesar Cipher, etc.

But I was lazy and just threw this into CyberCheff and brute forced all the basic rotations

squiqhyiiycfbudeduutvehrhkjki

Rot 10

Caesarissimplenoneedforbrutus

The next step is to simply grab the md5 hash of this text and wrap it in flag{}

MD5 hash, wrap in flag

flag{c945bb2173e7da5a292527bbbc825d3f}

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