NSA Codebreaker Challenge 2021
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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.