RSA CryptoCombat Club

Results of CryptoCombat 2007

Thank you to all who participated in the RSA CryptoCombat 2007 challenge.

Many candidates have written to us that in spite of having interest in cracking this problem, it was not possible for them to complete it before the end date. Hence, we are re-introducing this problem in the form of an open-challenge called "RSA CryptoCombat Club".

You are given a Cipher and an Evaluator. All you need to do:

Download Cipher_Evaluator.zip (Size: 5.46KB)
Study the Cipher and figure out an attack.
Write the attack program. You can use C, C++ or Java.
Test it using the Evaluator.

Check the Strength of the program (The lesser the amount of CipherText you need, the better it is). You can use the sample cipher-texts below.

Sample CipherText	Strength of the Program
CipherText-10000	Level 1
CipherText-5000	Level 2
CipherText-2000	Level 3
CipherText-1000	Level 4
CipherText-500	Level 5

Submit your source-code to cryptocombat@rsa.com.
If your entries are correct, we would add you to the distinguished " RSA CryptoCombat Club"

Your effort must be an individual one.
You are eligible to participate if you are currently enrolled in a college or if you passed out in last 2 years
Currently, this open challenge does not have an end date.

We would like to offer our thanks to the following participants. There are currently 2 entries on the Roll of Honor.

Last Update:

Strength of the Program	Name	College
Level 3	R.Arun	Madras Institute of Technology (Anna University)
Level 3	Nishant Kumar	Manipal Institute of technology, Manipal

Results of CryptoCombat 2007

Dear participants,

First of all, a big thanks to all of you. The objective of this competition was to provide an incentive for you to explore the interesting and challenging subject that cryptography is. If this competition has motivated you to explore the subject, we would consider ourselves successful.

Please share your experience, thoughts and feedback on CryptoCombat with us. That is valuable to us. You can write to us at cryptocombat@rsa.com

Many of you have written to us that in spite of having interest in cracking this problem, it was not possible for you to complete it before the end date. We have good news for you – we are re-introducing this problem in the form of an open-challenge.

Regards,
RSA CryptoCombat Team.

Here is the role of honor !!!

1st Prize

R.Arun — Madras Institute of Technology (Anna University)

Prize Won: HP Pavilion Laptop

2nd Prize

Nishant Kumar — Manipal Institute of technology, Manipal

Prize Won: Microsoft X-Box

Consolation Prize

Abhinav Prakash Rai — Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

Ajay V K — RV College of Engineering, Bangalore

D Veerajothi — Thiagarajar College of Engg, Madurai

Dhanesh K — Amrita Institute of Technology and Science, Kerala

Lourdes Pradeep — Thiagarajar College of Engg, Madurai

Preetham Soundararajan — Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Raghav Gautam — Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Rishabh Mukherjee — Indian Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

T M Murali Krishnan — Thiagarajar College of Engg, Madurai