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
make sure to drop me a line when starting a gentoo team!
Regards,
Stefan
just finished…
http://guidoserra.it/archivi/2006/07/14/quinti-cipher-06/
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 😀
what place did your students make?
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 🙂