CONTEST IS CLOSED! Congratulations to hsun324! Are you a coder/hacker? Now's your chance to show your skills! This is a C/C++ coding challenge! If you have no experience with the language, I wouldn't enter! Scenario: You have been contracted by a large corporation (ASSAP) to solve a crisis situation! One of their agents, Bob, has a company-standard 60-character password that's encoded in a file. The login program that the company uses to decode the password to cross-reference it with the one being inputted by the user has been removed from all the company's systems when a zero-day exploit was found that allowed an attacker to print pictures of Eduardo Dudu Surita on all the company printers. While ASSAP still has the source code of the login program, they need your help to retrieve Bob's password. What you need to do: Find the part in the code that decodes Bob's password Modify the code to write the plaintext password to a file called 'passdump.txt' Run that code separate from the whole program Send 'passdump.txt' back to the company (to me in PM) How to start the challenge: Send me a PM with the subject 'Bob's Password Challenge' In the body, write that you want to join the challenge I will send you a link to the source code of the login program, as well as Bob's encoded password file. From the time I send it to you, you'll have 24hr to send me back the link to 'passdump.txt' with the plaintext password as the contents via Dropbox, Google Drive, or Anonfiles. If I can login on my end, the contest will be over, and you will be sent BTC to an address of your choosing. Good luck! For anyone who missed out but would like to try: Source code: https://github.com/Forkk/MultiMC4 Bob's password file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3x21b6prq2zmc64/password
Congratulations, hsun324! You have retrieved Bob's password in a very timely manner, and therefore are on ASAAP's top list of contacts! Looking forward to doing business with you, again! Passdump file: Bob=.7=xnnGZSIi5.rOGZXC%u)^%Y#9PARfP?ms\=mT5v+QMLp'V3VyjTwIL&t3D}FR
I wouldn't be able to do it, but after the competition, could I just have the code, to look at and learn from ? Crypting interests me, and I need to learn somehow :3 hopefully this way wont result in a letter from my ISP again ._. EDIT: screw it, I'll just enter, I don't loose anything :3 PM time
My ISP like to think that they control the law.. Oh wait, since they're the only cable company, they do! :3 Apparently torrenting a Linux distro down is illegal too..
Maybe this might be of some help to anyone, The includes starting with wx/... are includes from wxWidgets. A way to get the password retrieval working would be to get that library set up for you in an IDE like Visual Studio, link all the includes and such and instead of passing the information into variables, print the out or store them in a file or such. That's how I'd do it
A lot of stuff is only distributed using bittorrent. Also all WoW/Starcraft/Diablo patches and updates are distributed using bittorrent. I work for the 3rd largest Telco/ISP in my country and we encourage users to use bittorrent. We also have racks and racks of bittorrent caches (oversi). As soon as it sees more than one user download a torrent they snag it too, and then proceed to seed the torrent to the rest of our customers. It works great! Sounds like you just need a better ISP.......... Also damn, wasn't checking the forums and missed out on this challenge. I like my bitcoins, can never have enough.
You should upload the program for those of us who missed the challenge and would like to look it over . Also this was a good idea, I like little programming challenges like this. Shame I rarely browse the forums lol
Source code: https://github.com/Forkk/MultiMC4 Bob's password file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3x21b6prq2zmc64/password
