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"You get the challenges in batches of eight by emailing cryptopals at Matasano, and solve them at your own pace, in the programming language of your choice. Onc
by dpflan 9y ago
"You get the challenges in batches of eight by emailing cryptopals at Matasano, and solve them at your own pace, in the programming language of your choice. Once you finish a set, you send in the solutions and Sean unlocks the next eight. (Curiously, after the third set, Gmail started rejecting my tarball as malware.) "
The Challenges: Cryptopals --> http://cryptopals.com/ http://cryptopals.com/
- SilasX 9y agoCan you still submit them for some kind of recognition? I know you can get them all now without emailing. (FWIW I got stuck on getting an existing software package to get the correct result from encrypting via AES with a given key.)
- dpflan 9y agoI haven't checked. Do you mean can you receive some sort of certificate of successful completion? I would think successful solutions with sharaebale code (e.g. a github repo) would be adequate for recognition of completion and competency.
- zellyn 9y agoThe nature of the challenges means you'll always know when you've solved them.
- burkaman 9y agoI emailed them like 3 years ago and never heard anything. I doubt anyone monitors the mailbox anymore.
- tptacek 9y agoNot really, but sort of. There's a set 8, and it's by far the best of all 8 sets (I'd rank the sets 8->6->2->3->4->7->5->1), but you have to mail Sean to get it, and you should tell him you've done at least sets 1-6.