Level 15 to Level 16

Now while being logged in as the user bandit15, you need to find the password of user bandit16 in order to complete this level.

If you haven’t completed the previous level, do check out the write-up for Level 14 to Level 15, which is present here.

Follow these steps to proceed:

• In this level, you’ll have to use the password you have for the current level, and pass it to the service running on port 30001 via an encrypted channel (over SSL)
• We cannot use netcat in the same way as before, because it won’t be encrypted. Instead, we can use openssl to do the same
• In order to connect to that service, we can run the following command:

openssl s_client -connect localhost:30001

• After running this, put the password and press enter. You’ll be greeted with the following message:

Correct!
<password>

• This is the required password
• Password obtained at the time of writing this write-up: kSkvUpMQ7lBYyCM4GBPvCvT1BfWRy0Dx

Note

Passwords on each of the levels are known to change regularly after a specific interval of time. So instead of skimming through the write-up, it is recommended to solve the challenge by hand.