On Thursday I am alone in university lab ): so I start some fun with code. first I wrote my personal library for vinegar cryptography an then solved TJCTF 2018 – Vinegar challenge. Please see my solution and feedback to me.

in github: https://github.com/matinpf/matin_CTF/tree/master/write%20up

Worth noting: some other solution use (itertools.permutations) that is faster, but not answer in any cases for instance, if key be (“aasafrujkiw”) con’t find because permutations function doesn’t repeat letters.

```
#!/usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Created on Thu Sep 26 15:36:41 2019
@author: matin fallahi
"""
import sys
sys.path.append('../')
from Vinegar import Vinegar
import itertools
import hashlib


vi=Vinegar()
#key = "KkkkkkkkkKkkkkkkkkKkkkkkkkkKkk" -->key 9 Letter key
flag = "uucbx{simbjyaqyvzbzfdatshktkbde}"
sha256 = "8304c5fa4186bbce7ac030d068fdd485040e65bf824ee70b0bdbac03862bec93"


for per in itertools.product('asdfghjklqwertyuiopzxcvbnm',repeat=5):
#print(per)
key=''.join(per)
mflag=vi.decrypt(key,'uucbx')
if mflag=='tjctf':
print ("firstpart of key:",key)
firstpart=key
break



for per in itertools.product('asdfghjklqwertyuiopzxcvbnm',repeat=4):
key=firstpart+''.join(per)
mflag=vi.decrypt(key,flag)
h = hashlib.sha256()
h.update(mflag.encode('utf-8'))
hflag=h.hexdigest()
if hflag==sha256:
print ("falag:",mflag,"\n key:",key)
break


print("\n Best wishes. :)")

```