Hack This Site! - Programming 1

Description:

Unscramble the words

You have to find the original (unscrambled) words, which were randomly taken from a wordlist. 

Level 1:

This level is about unscrambling words.

Find the original (unscrambled) words, which were randomly taken from a wordlist.<--
Send a comma separated list of the original words, in the same order as in the list below.

You have 30 seconds time to send the solution.
List of scrambled words:

• slrehac
• ndyrgaee
• occaltoh
• coescr1
• aatcglo
• ceripn
• pppeer
• gelaes
• cnemia
• aehapc

Answer:      (Example:   word1,word2,word3, ... word9,word10)
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submit       (remain time: 30 seconds)

Solution:

1. Each time when you visit the URL: hxxp://www.hackthissite.org/missions/prog/1/ , you get different random scrambled words displayed on the page.
2. You can download the wordlist or we called dictionary file below. The file contains all unscrambling words.

   Download: hxxp://www.hackthissite.org/missions/prog/1/wordlist.zip

3. The page will countdown for 30 seconds. And you should submit the answer in time.
4. Since this is a programming level, you should write a program or a script to pass this challenge.
5. I write a little Bash shell script below, but you can also use other program language to pass this challenge more easily.

6. Now, you need to have 3 files:

   HTS-Programming-01.sh - the shell script above or your program
   scrambling.txt - copy the scrambling words on the page and store into a file
   wordlist.txt - unzip from the downloaded dictionary file

7. Use the script to find out the comma separated list of the original words.

   root@sp:~/HTS# ./HTS-Programming-01.sh scrambling.txt

8. Good Job, OOXXOOXX, You have successfully completed this mission.