Coderupt, the hacking contest

After a nightout for the 12 hr long Hacking contest frm 11:00p.m - 11:00a.m, I come to conclude hacking is more abt ur applying knowledge you gained so far working on computers rather than studying something specific to becoming a hacker. The Hacking workshop challenge was conducted by Lazarus, of KPMG's Information Security Group. He is also one of the organisers of famous DEF CON

Digging thru the Assembly code to crack the program was exciting. But at times very irritating becoz of our experiences with the comfortable high level languages. To search for some instruction like idiv. We also had to run ~50m to access internet kiosks. I wish i could read assembly code the way i can read C ;)

The problem was to decrypt a file on ur terminal and then start ssh server on a remote machine.

BTW, we did complete all the 3 stages of hacking contest and learnt a ton of things in the process including the heavy penalties of communication gap.