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by Retr0id 1604 days ago
To be honest there is no singular intended solution, I deliberately designed it so that there were multiple approaches that could make sense (especially in combination). Intended solutions include but are not limited to:

- Guessing by hand.

- Bruteforce by programatically feeding input into QEMU (as in that writeup).

- Bruteforce by only emulating the "important" code, via something like Unicorn.

- Bruteforce by reimplementing the algorithm in another language (There are some tricks you can use to make it go fast - maybe I should write those up...)

- Reducing the search space by grepping for likely keywords.

- Bruteforce of remaining bytes of the RC4 key (also as in that writeup).