As a tradition, every fall we host a fun lightweight Jeopardy CTF for our freshmen to attract them into all the CTFey goodness. This one will be our fifth year (holy shit!) We invite everyone to check out hack you ’17 this year. Just as always, two separate scoreboards: one for SPbCTF meetups, one for …
Tag: 2017
Sep 04
TWCTF 2017 – Solutions for BabyPinhole, Liar’s Trap, Palindrome Pairs Challenge
Scripts with short explanations: BabyPinhole (crypto 163) Liar’s Trap (crypto/ppc 281) Palindrome Pairs – Challenge Phase (ppc 63+337)
Jul 09
Polictf 2017 – Lucky Consecutive Guessing (Crypto)
We implemented a random number generator. We’ve heard that rand()’s 32 bit seeds can be easily cracked, so we stayed on the safe side. nc lucky.chall.polictf.it 31337 chall.py Summary: breaking truncated-to-MSB LCG with top-down bit-by-bit search.
Jun 19
Google CTF 2017 Quals – BLT (Bleichenbacher’s Lattice Task – Insanity Check)
A slow descent into the dark, into madness, futility, and despair. BLT.jar (not necessary) STDOUT Flag.java Summary: DSA with short secrets, lattice + meet-in-the-middle attack.
Jun 19
Google CTF 2017 Quals – Crypto writeups
Scripts with short explanations for all crypto tasks (except RSA) from Google CTF Quals 2017: Crypto Backdoor Introspective CRC Shake It RSA CTF Challenge (no writeup, but I think it’s similar to this old one) Rubik Bleichenbacher’s Lattice Task (full writeup here)
Mar 20
0CTF 2017 Quals – Zer0llvm
Talent Yang loves to customize his own obfuscator. Unfortunately, he lost his seed when he was watching Arsenal’s UEFA game. What a sad day! His team and his seed were lost together. To save him, could you help him to get back his seed? We can not save the game, but we may be able …
Mar 20
0CTF 2017 Quals – OneTimePad 1 and 2
I swear that the safest cryptosystem is used to encrypt the secret! oneTimePad.zip Well, maybe the previous one is too simple. So I designed the ultimate one to protect the top secret! oneTimePad2.zip Summary: breaking a linear and an LCG-style exponential PRNGs.