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Vortex0

By Amr

Level Goal ---------- Your goal is to connect to port 5842 on vortex.labs.overthewire.org and read in 4 unsigned integers in host byte order. Add these integers together and send back the results to get a username and password for vortex1. This infor...

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Level Goal

Your goal is to connect to port 5842 on vortex.labs.overthewire.org and read in 4 unsigned integers in host byte order. Add these integers together and send back the results to get a username and password for vortex1. This information can be used to log in using SSH.

Note: vortex is on an 32bit x86 machine (meaning, a little endian architecture)

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