Lars Weiler

Post details: Friday: Hacking Contest

13 July, 2006

Permalink 20:55 UTC, by Lars Weiler Email , 163 words, 1104 views   English (US)
Categories: German Conspiracy, Event, Study

Friday: Hacking Contest

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?

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Comments:

Comment from: DerCorny [Visitor]
make sure to drop me a line when starting a gentoo team!

Regards,
Stefan
PermalinkPermalink 14 July, 2006 @ 14:44
Comment from: Guido Serra aka Zeph [Visitor] · http://guidoserra.it
just finished...
http://guidoserra.it/archivi/2006/07/14/quinti-cipher-06/
PermalinkPermalink 14 July, 2006 @ 18:07
Comment from: felix [Visitor] · http://seclog.de
a gentoo ctf team would be nice, but after playing on a slackware in 2005 and a gentoo this year, i would predict that the next distro will be lfs :D

what place did your students make?
PermalinkPermalink 14 July, 2006 @ 19:56
Comment from: Lars Weiler [Member] Email
We scored 8th out of 19. So for a first time team with no experience in any CTF it's not that bad. When there is another CTF in autumn you will see us again :-)
PermalinkPermalink 14 July, 2006 @ 22:40

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