would-you-wordle
Points: 250
Someone left this secret text string and unfinished Wordle. Can you put them together to get the flag?
pUpPHg3KfB15MG2KGtQQMDEECPOF8oa3VA==
Solving
Okay lets have a look at it. The hint tells us something about "Ron's code". This should be RC4 according to this:
RC4 (for 'Ron's Code 4') is a stream cipher developed by Ronald L. Rivest in 1987 that has been widely used with standards such as HTTPS, SSH 1, and WEP or WPA. Officially, RC4 is a trademark of RSA Security and is secret.
So I opened up the CyberChef and chose the RC4 option. Then we put the BASE64 string into the input field. Okay next we need the "key". Let's have a look into the wordle. Solving this, should give us the key, right?
I cheated and used this word finder. Okay - after filling the form I got 6 possible answers
I tried them in lower and upper case as key and with "thorn" I was able to decrypt that thing.
Don't forget to set the input to Base64