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December 1, 2011 at 6:14 pm #7098
alan
ParticipantGCHQ are apparently looking to hire computer experts and have created a challenge. It doesn’t look easy, but take a punt!
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December 1, 2011 at 6:52 pm #44131
eth3real
ParticipantAs a marketing technique, it is amazingly effective for their target audience. I’m so intrigued, I know I’m going to take a crack at it before time runs out.
Thanks for this, I love puzzles. ;D
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December 1, 2011 at 7:12 pm #44132
YuckTheFankees
Participantwhat are we looking for? A word or sentence?
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December 1, 2011 at 7:28 pm #44133
hurtl0cker
ParticipantOne of my friend who deals with Algorithms and stuff cleared it, I am still scratching my head on it ::)
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December 1, 2011 at 9:28 pm #44134
hayabusa
ParticipantI haven’t looked closely, but a prelim glance at the source of the page would indicate 16 characters or less…
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December 2, 2011 at 3:18 pm #44135
Triban
Participant**SPOILER ALERT*** ha, Mubix tweeted the following link
http://www.canyoucrackit.co.uk/soyoudidit.asp
#CodeBreakingIsHard:p
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December 2, 2011 at 4:22 pm #44136
lorddicranius
Participant@3xban wrote:
**SPOILER ALERT*** ha, Mubix tweeted the following link
http://www.canyoucrackit.co.uk/soyoudidit.asp
#CodeBreakingIsHard:p
lol Maybe get a job in their web security department to flush out logic flaws?
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December 2, 2011 at 5:41 pm #44137
Anonymous
Participantlol epic fail 😛
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December 5, 2011 at 4:19 am #44138
lorddicranius
Participant**SPOILERS**
For those looking for the solution, there’s videos here explaining it:
http://gchqchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/12/gchq-stage-1-commented-assembly-code-dr.html
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December 6, 2011 at 2:06 am #44139
eth3real
ParticipantWow, those are some incredible videos. Much more involved than I had initially thought.
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December 7, 2011 at 7:50 am #44140
alan
ParticipantAre you sure this is the only answer? This article suggests there may be a hidden 4th challenge!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/06/hidden_gchq_code_breaking_challenge/
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December 14, 2011 at 8:58 pm #44141
isgillen
Participantall that for £31k a year….shame
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December 15, 2011 at 10:26 am #44142
Anonymous
Participantdid anyone from this site have a go and crack it ?
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December 15, 2011 at 5:06 pm #44143
lorddicranius
ParticipantOkay, so apparently there is a buffer overflow in the GCHQ canyoucrackit binary challenge. http://pastie.org/2999151 anyone else catch this? 🙂
Source: https://twitter.com/#!/d1n/status/145765165361676288
There’s all kinds of security challenges in this! haha
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March 26, 2012 at 4:00 pm #44144
pharmerjoe
ParticipantYou didn’t even need to crack it, at the time, I just googled “site:canyoucrackit.co.uk”
And the soyoudidit page came up ;D
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