Fact Of The Day
If you have medical expenses that you can't pay, you can appeal to the US Department of Health and Human Services for financial aid.
If you have medical expenses that you can't pay, you can appeal to the US Department of Health and Human Services for financial aid.
He did it! He said the line!
Just this past weekend, Pacific Hackers Association and HackMiami joined forces to compete in the DEFCON CTF Qualifiers. The top 12 teams from this CTF go on to play the most competitive and challenging CTF in the world at DEFCON 31. Though, to be fair, our team wasn't of that caliber. We were able to solve 2 challenges (not counting the sanity checks) and finished in 92nd place, which is a great success by my standards! I was able to solve this one with the help of my friend Sam. It's a reverse engineering challenge, but with Python code instead of x86 assembly, which makes things much nicer.
This server is basically a simulation of the IND-CCA2 game testing a custom cryptographic system. The game is described in detail here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciphertext_indistinguishability.