CRACK Solution
SINGLE KEY
CRACK xor cipher

ZERO
Techniquexor cipher
Rulenonzero
SampleZERO
Walkthrough
Recover the accepted input below, then submit it to the CRACK verifier.
Verifier Listing
; t03_xor: XOR cipher: each input byte XORed with the key 0x2a must equal the
; stored target sequence. Technique: single-key XOR (the classic). To recover the
; password, XOR each target byte by 0x2a. r0 = 1 on accept. Accept rule: nonzero.
;
; targets (after ^0x2a) = 0x70 0x6f 0x78 0x65 -> password "ZERO".
len r1
cmp r1, 4
jnz bad ; must be exactly 4 bytes
mov r7, 0
ldb r0, [r7]
xor r0, 0x2a
cmp r0, 0x70
jnz bad
inc r7
ldb r0, [r7]
xor r0, 0x2a
cmp r0, 0x6f
jnz bad
inc r7
ldb r0, [r7]
xor r0, 0x2a
cmp r0, 0x78
jnz bad
inc r7
ldb r0, [r7]
xor r0, 0x2a
cmp r0, 0x65
jnz bad
mov r0, 1
ret
bad: mov r0, 0
ret