Rating:

the encryption is entirely bitwise, so by encrypting two plaintexts, one with all zeros and one with all ones, key recovery becomes trivial
(bitwise means each bit is encrypted individually, there's no mixing going on like with a good cipher like AES)

```py
from pwn import *

def hex2bin(n):
i = int(n,16) # convert to int
b = bin(i)[2:] # convert to binary
l = len(n) # get length
p = l*4-len(b) # get number of zeros omitted
b = "0"*p+b # add leading zeros to binary
return b # return binary

def bin2hex(n):
i = int(n,2)
h = hex(i)[2:]
l = len(n)
p = l//4-len(h)
h = "0"*p+h
return h

def encrypt(p, z, o):
p = hex2bin(p)
z = hex2bin(z)
o = hex2bin(o)
res = ""
for i in range(len(p)):
if p[i] == '0':
res += z[i]
else:
res += o[i]

return bin2hex(res)

conn = remote('crypto.2021.chall.actf.co', 21602)

# get zeros
conn.send(b"1\n")
conn.recv()
conn.send(b"0"*64+b"\n")
conn.recv()
zeros = conn.recv().split(b"\n")[0].decode()
print("Zeros:",zeros)

# get ones
conn.send(b"1\n")
conn.recv()
conn.send(b"f"*64+b"\n")
ones = conn.recv().split(b"\n")[0].decode()
print("Ones:",ones)

# encrypt and send
conn.send(b"2\n")
while True:
c = conn.recv()
if c[0] == ord("W"):
print(c.decode())
conn.close()
exit()
ct = c.replace(b'Encrypt this: ',b'').split(b'\n')[0].decode()
e = encrypt(ct,zeros,ones)
conn.send(e.encode()+b"\n")
```

Original writeup (https://github.com/williamsolem/writeups/blob/main/%C3%A5ngstromCTF%202021/actf_home_rolled_crypto_solve.py).