Author: Nick Harbour, Reverse Engineer
The 13th annual FLARE-On contest has come to a close. This year proved to be a pivotal year for the venerable and celebrated Capture-the-flag contest, as AI solvers flooded the early scoreboards and leaderboards in an unprecedented fashion. Over 600 players finished this year with 89 of those coming within the first 24 hours. The prize for this year’s contest is a coin! FLARE-On has not had a coin prize since the first contest in 2014. These prizes were available to the first finishers while supplies lasted.
We would like to thank the challenge authors individually for their hard work and contributions this year:
- FLAreCAPTCHA - Nick Harbour (@nickharbour)
- The Ghost Stream - Deepak Rajput (@deepakrajput)
- FlareOn13.doc - Ange Albertini (@corkami)
- ToxicMiner - Ana Maria Martinez Gomez (@ana06@fosstodon.org)
- CatThief - Nick Taylor (@NickTaylorRE)
- ThreatInvaders - Vince Weyell (@weyell)
- FlareCalc - Paul Tarter (@woggins)
- crux - Sam Kim (@sdkim)
- NeonOutRun - Mustafa Nasser (@mustafanasser)
All the binaries from this year’s challenge are now posted to the FLARE-On Website. The official challenge solution documents are attached below.
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