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(a) What's CTF? (b) Why do you think it's not popular? But even without knowing the answers to those questions, in general I've found that anything that requi
by ColinWright 6y ago
(a) What's CTF?
(b) Why do you think it's not popular?
But even without knowing the answers to those questions, in general I've found that anything that requires significant amounts of both theory and practice tends to have a very small potential audience, and HN is no different in that regard.
- tester756 6y agoCTFs are security competitions between teams coming from many countries. Those are some of "topics" that challenges/tasks during those competitions do cover: (stolen from dev.to) Cryptography - Typically involves decrypting or encrypting a piece of data Steganography - Tasked with finding information hidden in files or images Binary - Reverse engineering or exploiting a binary file Web - Exploiting web pages to find the flag Pwn - Exploiting a server to find the flag Generally it requires to be very proficent at CS and Computers in general to compete at highest levels The more detailed description may be here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ev9ZX9J45A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ev9ZX9J45A Here's ranking of teams: https://ctftime.org/ https://ctftime.org/ >https://dev.to/atan/what-is-ctf-and-how-to-get-started-3f04 https://dev.to/atan/what-is-ctf-and-how-to-get-started-3f04