mirrors/embedded-trainings-2020
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/ferrous-systems/embedded-trainings-2020.git synced 2024-05-05 10:09:08 +00:00
Code Issues Projects Releases Wiki Activity
embedded-trainings-2020/embedded-workshop-book/src/radio-puzzle.md
Lotte Steenbrink 0abb00f55e puzzle: add illustration
2021-05-05 19:53:15 +02:00

1.9 KiB
Raw Blame History

Radio Puzzle

illustration showing that you send plaintext and the dongle responds with ciphertext

Your task in this section is to decrypt the substitution cipher encrypted ASCII string stored in the Dongle. The string has been encrypted using simple substitution.

✅ Flash the puzzle.hex program on the Dongle. Follow the instructions from the "nRF52840 Dongle" section but flash the puzzle.hex program instead of the loopback.hex one -- don't forget to put the Dongle in bootloader mode before invoking nrfdfu.

Note: If you experienced USB issues with loopback.hex you use the puzzle-nousb*.hex variants.

Like in the previous sections the Dongle will listen for radio packets -- this time over channel 25 -- while also logging messages over a USB/serial interface.

✅ Open the beginner/apps folder in VS Code; then open the src/bin/radio-puzzle.rs file. Run the program.

Dongle Responses

❗ The Dongle responds to the DK's requests wirelessly (i.e. by sending back radio packets) as well. You'll see the dongle responses printed by the DK. This means you don't have to worry if serial-term doesn't work on your machine.

The Dongle will respond differently depending on the length of the incoming packet:

  • On zero-sized packets it will respond with the encrypted string.
  • On one-byte sized packets it will respond with the direct mapping from a plaintext letter (single u8 value) -- the letter contained in the packet -- to the ciphertext letter (u8 value).
  • On packets of any other length the Dongle will respond with the string correct if it received the decrypted string, otherwise it will respond with the incorrect string.

The Dongle will always respond with packets that are valid UTF-8 so you can use str::from_utf8 on the response packets.

See the next chapter for solving stragies and help.