Black Hat | Making and Breaking NSA's Codebreaker Challenge @BlackHatOfficialYT | Uploaded 8 months ago | Updated 1 hour ago
For the past 10 years, the National Security Agency (NSA) has hosted the Codebreaker Challenge. This competition, written and run by NSA's technical experts, includes a new theme and challenge each year. The challenges are custom designed by NSA to mimic a real-world problem NSA faces in its mission and include up to 10 rounds of increasing difficulty including code analysis and reverse engineering. Starting with only 5 schools in 2013, the program has grown exponentially. In 2022, more than 4,800 participants from 449 schools across the United States competed for bragging rights. Only 104 people (about 2%) successfully completed all 9 rounds of the challenge this past year....
By: Rita Doerr
Full Abstract and Presentation Materials: blackhat.com/us-23/briefings/schedule/#making-and-breaking-nsas-codebreaker-challenge-32912
For the past 10 years, the National Security Agency (NSA) has hosted the Codebreaker Challenge. This competition, written and run by NSA's technical experts, includes a new theme and challenge each year. The challenges are custom designed by NSA to mimic a real-world problem NSA faces in its mission and include up to 10 rounds of increasing difficulty including code analysis and reverse engineering. Starting with only 5 schools in 2013, the program has grown exponentially. In 2022, more than 4,800 participants from 449 schools across the United States competed for bragging rights. Only 104 people (about 2%) successfully completed all 9 rounds of the challenge this past year....
By: Rita Doerr
Full Abstract and Presentation Materials: blackhat.com/us-23/briefings/schedule/#making-and-breaking-nsas-codebreaker-challenge-32912
