By Brad Antoniewicz.
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For the last couple of years, I've had the pleasure to help out with and judge NYU Poly CSAW's CTF, the largest student-run Capture the Flag competition is the United States (probably bigger). It is always a really an awesome experience, and I encourage you to participate if you have a chance - Qualification Round is September 19th!
Last year, I wrote a challenge called FaceSmack (a.k.a. FunForEveryBody) and wanted to publish it for you to play with. The goal of the challenge is to obtain the key (in format:
If you start to play around with the challenge you'll notice each button click causes a change in the way a sentence is formed, you know when you got it right because the status message will read "The key Is key{some sentence}" instead of "The key is NOT key{some sentence}".
For the last couple of years, I've had the pleasure to help out with and judge NYU Poly CSAW's CTF, the largest student-run Capture the Flag competition is the United States (probably bigger). It is always a really an awesome experience, and I encourage you to participate if you have a chance - Qualification Round is September 19th!
Last year, I wrote a challenge called FaceSmack (a.k.a. FunForEveryBody) and wanted to publish it for you to play with. The goal of the challenge is to obtain the key (in format:
key{key here}) by clicking buttons in a specific order. The order can be reversed out of the binary - with enough dedication. On average, it's taken people between 4-10 hours to get it. If you start to play around with the challenge you'll notice each button click causes a change in the way a sentence is formed, you know when you got it right because the status message will read "The key Is key{some sentence}" instead of "The key is NOT key{some sentence}".