On January 4th, 2021, OSUSEC finished 3rd place with 133,337 points at the NSA Codebreaker Challenge. 189 OSU students and OSUSEC members solved at least one of the 11 tasks, and 5 OSU students and OSUSEC members solved all 11.

Some more statistics about the competition are below:

• Confirmed Public Participants: 5,465
• Schools Registered: 631
• Task Completions:
  • Task 0: 3,335
  • Task 1: 2,352
  • Task 2: 1,385
  • Task 3: 1,098
  • Task 4: 778
  • Task 5: 688
  • Task 6: 418
  • Task 7: 196
  • Task 8: 56
  • Task 9: 55
  • Task 10: 42
• PCAP Downloads: 3,650

This was a great effort from our team over the course of several months. Great work, everyone!!

Note from 2023-07-13, Casey Colley: Lyell Read’s task writeups are located here.