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PicoCTF Cryptography Digital Forensics

Cryptography & Digital Forensics

Practical security analysis focused on solving PicoCTF challenges, deciphering cryptographic algorithms, and conducting deep digital forensics investigations on Kali Linux.


🔑 01. Cryptography Challenges

Analyzing ciphers, breaking weak RSA implementations, Base/Hex decoding, and writing Python scripts to automate decryption workflows.

Cryptography PicoCTF Solution

Figure 1: Decryption workflow & payload analysis on PicoCTF cryptography challenge.

🔍 02. Digital Forensics & Packet Analysis

Extracted hidden Base64-encoded payload from PCAP network stream using Wireshark TCP Stream Follow filters on Kali Linux environment.

Wireshark TCP Stream Extraction

Figure 2: Captured encoded payload 9NgzWEI=YQ== extracted from TCP Stream 0 in Wireshark.