Overthewire Krypton Level 0 -> 1

Solution for the Overthewire.org Krypton level 0 -> 1

Level Info

Welcome to Krypton! The first level is easy. The following string encodes the password using Base64:

S1JZUFRPTklTR1JFQVQ=

Use this password to log in to krypton.labs.overthewire.org with username krypton1 using SSH on port 2231. You can find the files for other levels in /krypton/

Walkthrough

The description tells us the password has been encoded using base64 encoding. So we only need to decode the string to obtain the password. Linux terminal has a base64 command that can be used to decode the password.

~$ echo S1JZUFRPTklTR1JFQVQ= | base64 -d
KRYPTON*******

Use the password to login to krypton1.