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This is totally nostalgic of the "binary bomb" assignment in CS 107 @ Stanford. You have to run the program from Stanford's network. There are 6 levels and each

This is totally nostalgic of the "binary bomb" assignment in CS 107 @ Stanford. You have to run the program from Stanford's network. There are 6 levels and each level has a password you have to enter. If you enter the wrong password, the course server is notified, and a point is deducted from your grade. The correct way to solve each level is to disassemble the program and figure out what it's doing. Here's Google's cache of this page: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:uGbSzpZhmGsJ:web.stanford.edu/class/cs107/assign5.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:uGbSzpZ... ...there's even a secret level in the binary.

iliis 12y ago
We did that in our second year and it was awesome. I don't know if it was the same binary but it was well made. The first password was very easy (just a constant string) and it got progressively harder from there. At the end we had to step through some recursive algorithm and you learned to read assembly almost as well as normal code. And the server for submitting the passwords didn't filter the username so you could enter arbitrary HTML into the high-score...