W3Challs 1.0 release (awe, the 25/08/2010 at 17h33)Comments (0)

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W3Challs _finally_ emerge from a very long beta period in which it completly changed.

Foremost, I would like to point out that mailboxes are not yet available in this release, and that a crackme is missing to the new challenges count (/me hides)

I would also like to thanks #w3challs idlers that, after a lot of death threats, lockpicking and more, finally gave me motivation to make the forum, that was truly the missing important piece in the puzzle.
Now there will just need to motivate me to make mailboxes

Well, let's go for news... enjoy !

• Bind IP: Now sessions are binded to connected's IP.
  This measure is usefull to prevent session stealing with XSS (if ever there were some )
• Autologin: It was already available, now it's just automatically checked. You'll then maybe notice a new checkbox near to it...
• SSL: It Self-signed but, well, just trust us .
• Design: A lot of tiny details, especially the rounding of some parts of the site and major blocks rebalancing, because most attentives may have noticed that the right space was larger then left's one, particularly for shoutbox.
• Menu: A small menu button took place on the top right space, to give a quick access to essential pages.
• Browsers: Most known recent browsers compatibility had been improved. Chrome and Opera's behavior are more similar to FireFox's one. About IE, well hmm, not tested
• Javascript: Until now the site contained just a very few javascript, thing that changed a bit with this update, in which jQuery framework was added. It's currently used especially for design's improvement as well as inscription form validation, images' overview and new graphs in profil part...
• Forum !:
You dreamed about that, it finally became something real.
Here are this forum's special features:
• Created by awe so it's necessarily nice
• Available in a "2 in 1" version: French and English are separated, but the main thing is always managed by only one system in background.
• Adapted to challenges' system, init messages are automatically created with the challenge, and modified as well (alteration of name, category, ...)
• Afterwards to share resolution technics
• Automatic Forums for news, which serves as news comments.
• Code HighLighting in 150+ languages
• Live Preview of posts you're writting
• RSS of last forum messages depending on the user language

Hope everybody will enjoy

Now let's take a look to new challenges:

• Cracking:
  • Firsts steps on Linux, proposed by robert
  • Safe copy, proposed by robert


• Cryptography:
  
  • Asymmetric encryption, proposé par coclico

Thanks for these challs robert & coclico

Because nobody validated it, points increased for Research of a backdoor, that changes its name and statement as well, on author's request

Sum up: W3Challs v1.0 official \o/

Enjoy

Papaver rhoeas (awe, the 10/06/2010 at 22h27)Comments (0)

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2 new challenges from coclico, official supplier of W3Challs


RSA Server, en cryptography
Introduction to watermarking, steganography.

Thanks to coclico for these challenges

Have fun !

Hacking Server Down (awe, the 28/05/2010 at 22h22)Comments (0)

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The Hacking Server is dead, may its soul rest in peace.

Until a replacement solution takes place, all hacking challenges are inaccessible. It will certainly go on like that for 1 or 2 weeks, I'll notice you about any progress.

Sure, some recent backups have been preserved, so the complete server isn't lost.

Some not really dangerous or unnecessary to config challenges will certainly be temporarily moved here.

Enjoy other challenges meanwhile