The purpose of this problem is to teach about the need for encrypting your data. The FTP protocol sends clear text over the wire, i.e the data is transmitted without any encryption. SSH/Secure File Transfer Protocol is a network protocol providing secure file transfer. Using SFTP, instead of ...

This is the first crypto-problem, and it was supposed to be the easiest one. For this reason, I was expecting simple cryptographic algorithms, which turned out to be true.

The problem starts with the following text:

There's no heartbleed here. Why don't we use these ciphers?

nc 54 ...