Hacky Easter 2021 writeup

HackyEaster was awesome again. From a technical point of view there weren’t too much new things, but the creativity of the provided challenges made it really fun. Including the little teaser challenge there were a total amount of 37 challenges. These challenges were divided into different levels. You could only proceed to the next level, if you have earned enough points in the current level. I really liked that new idea.

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HACKvent20 writeup

This year’s HACKvent hosted on competition.hacking-lab.com has been as great as every year.
There was a total amount of 28 awesome challenges with varying difficulties.
HV20.(-1) Twelve steps of christmas
HV20.01 Happy HACKvent 2020
HV20.02 Chinese Animals
HV20.03 Packed gifts
HV20.04 Br❤celet
HV20.05 Image DNA
HV20.13 Twelve steps of christmas
HV20.14 Santa’s Special GIFt
HV20.15 Man Commands, Server Lost
HV20.16 Naughty Rudolph
HV20.17 Santa’s Gift Factory Control
HV20.18 Santa’s lost home
HV20.19 Docker Linter Service
HV20.06 Twelve steps of christmas
HV20.07 Bad morals
HV20.08 The game
HV20.09 Santa’s Gingerbread Factory
HV20.10 Be patient with the adjacent
HV20.11 Chris’mas carol
HV20.12 Wiener waltz
HV20.20 Twelve steps of Christmas
HV20.21 Threatened Cat
HV20.22 Padawanlock
HV20.23 Those who make backups are cowards!
HV20.24 Santa’s Secure Data Storage
HV20.H1 It’s a secret!
HV20.H2 Oh, another secret!
HV20.H3 Hidden in Plain Sight
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Google CTF 2019 (Quals) – Quantum Key Distribution

This years online qualification for the Google Capture The Flag finals (ctftime.org) ran from 22/06/2019, 00:01 UTC to 23/06/2019 23:59 UTC.

As last year, there were plenty of diversified challenges, which were worked out very well.

I tried to take at least a look at as much challenges as possible and solved the challenge Quantum Key Distribution, which was relatively easy based on the amounts of solves. Within this article I want to share my writeup on this challenge.

The writeup is divided into the following sections:

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VolgaCTF 2019 Qualifier – Blind

The VolgaCTF 2019 Qualifier (ctftime.org) took place from 29/03/2019, 15:00 UTC to 31/03/2019 15:00 UTC.

There has been a really interesting RSA crypto challenge called Blind, which I would like to share with you in this writeup.

The article is divided into the following sections:

Challenge description
What does the script do?
Blind RSA Signature
Retrieving the Flag

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HACKvent18 writeup

For the sixth time in a row now hacking-lab.com carried out the annual HACKvent. Each day from the 1st of december until the 24th a new challenge is published. I would have loved to spend more time on it, but time is a rare resource especially on the days before christmas 😉 After all I managed to solve 21 of 24 tasks:

Easy
Day 01: Just Another Bar Code
Day 02: Me
Day 03: Catch me
Day 04: pirating like in the 90ies
Day 05: OSINT 1
Day 06: Mondrian
Day 07: flappy.pl
Medium
Day 08: Advent Snail
Day 09: fake xmass balls
Day 10: >_ Run, Node, Run
Day 11: Crypt-o-Math 3.0
Day 12: SmartWishList
Day 13: flappy’s revenge
Day 14: power in the shell
Hard
Day 15: Watch Me
Day 16: Pay 100 Bitcoins
Day 17: Faster KEy Exchange
Day 18: Be Evil
Day 19: PromoCode
Day 20: I want to play a game
Day 21: muffinCTF (Day 1)
Day 22: muffinCTF (Day 2)
Day 23: muffinCTF (Day 3)
Final
Day 24: Take the red pill, take the blue pill

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