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They're really fun – thanks for sharing the names of some others. Although I'm not "new" I hadn't encountered OverTheWire before. The first one is indeed a gen
by azalemeth 5y ago
They're really fun – thanks for sharing the names of some others.
Although I'm not "new" I hadn't encountered OverTheWire before. The first one is indeed a gentle introduction, but I think the difficulty does then increase. I got through all of leviathan using radare2 (which, frankly, I feel like I am still scratching the surface of) and reading the passwords out of registers. After finishing it, I googled for others' solutions, and found very creative -- and totally different -- solutions to the same puzzles, almost none of which involved something like gdb or r2 at all.
They very much feel like the traditional "book of Christmas puzzles", but for the HN audience that likes solving them interactively.
- indigochill 5y agoWell, the ones I named are more "wargames" in the traditional sense: tanks and planes and stuff. But as I mentioned, the principles of reconnaissance and exploiting weaknesses are the same, which is interesting. For more computer-oriented wargames, I really enjoyed what I've done of Microcorruption (if you're into radare2 sort of stuff) and wechall is a challenge site tracker that has links to many other similar games as well as being a scoreboard that you can track your progress on all participating sites on. Or if you like competition, CTFtime.org is a live calendar of many computer security capture-the-flag competitions you can join. If you're interested in that but want to join a team, OpenToAll is a team that welcomes anyone to join and talk about challenges.