Congratulations to all the participants in the 2022 Codebreaker Challenge. We've posted a wrap-up from the lead developer, for those who might be interested in a bit a behind-the-scenes tour of the 2022 Challenge.

Slides from the Web Exploitation Tech Talk are now available for download. These slides are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license, derived with modification from the OWASP Top 10.

In honor of NSA's participation in the American Indian Science and Engineering Society's 2022 Conference STEM Day, we're proud to present a bonus puzzle:

Welcome, AISES participants! The bytes below contain a secretly encoded message. Using any tools at your disposal, can you figure out the secret message? Come and see us at NSA's STEM Day booth for a tip on how to get started!

Puzzle bytes:

eb 32 5b 48 89 da b9 19 00 00 00 80 33 aa 48 ff c3 48 ff c9 75 f5 b8 01 00 00 00 bf 01 00 00 00 48 89 d6 ba 19 00 00 00 0f 05 b8 3c 00 00 00 48 31 ff 0f 05 e8 c9 ff ff ff e7 cb c1 cf 8a cf dc cf d8 d3 8a c7 c3 c4 df de cf 8a c9 c5 df c4 de 84 a0

Mark your calendars! We've scheduled two tech talks on topics that might be helpful as you work through the 2022 challenge.

Tune in on September 28th at 6PM eastern time for a briefing and demo on Web Exploitation, and on October 6th at 6PM eastern for a briefing and demo on Ghidra.

Information on how to join these sessions can be found in the #announcements channel on the Discord.

Slides from the 2022 Codebreaker Overview Tech Talk, from September 1st, 2022, are now available for download.

The 2022 Codebreaker Challenge will conclude on Friday, December 9th, 2022, at 3PM EST.

Once the competition ends, the Leaderboard is frozen. Answers submitted after that will still be graded, but will not count towards a school's score.

Good luck, and enjoy the challenge!