Lars Weiler

Tomorrow, the CIPHER2 contest takes place again. This is a Capture-the-Flag like Challenges in Informatics: Programming, Hosting and ExploRing, organised by the university RWTH Aachen.

Last year I visited the team in Aachen with the fellow devs dertobi123, pYrania and bonsaikitten. We got a nice introduction to the game and I thought, one day I will take part as well.

But things changed and since March I'm mentoring a group of students in the subject "Computer- and Networksecurity" at my university of applied sciences in Krefeld. I told them about CIPHER and they founded a group that will enter the contest. And I'm their “manager”… Funny thing, that I never played myself in the CTF, but now I have my own group and facility for being a part of the whole match.

Now there is only the hope that we will not score last…

PS: Last year we had the idea of a Gentoo team. Probably next time we can form a Gentoo-CTF-team?