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A journey through CTFs, cybersecurity and the broad field that is computer science.

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  • Hack.lu CTF 2024: REGenerating EXperience

    November 1, 2024

    Funny enough, this another more irregular challenge. Although it deals with regular expressions...

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  • Midnight Sun CTF 2024 Quals: roprot

    April 28, 2024

    A crackme that uses ROP?! You have to take a look at this challenge, trust me.

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  • KalmarCTF 2024: Symmetry

    March 24, 2024

    One year after they first organized a CTF, kalmarunionen brought us a challenging competition again. I especially enjoyed the series Symmetry.

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  • CyberSecurityRumble Quals & Finals 2023

    October 13, 2023

    After the forced pause this years edition of the CyberSecurityRumble finally returned with an onsite finals event. Let's look back at two interesting challenges!

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  • Writeups from Google Capture The Flag 2023

    July 8, 2023

    A year ago I started my journey here with a misc and a web challenge. This year I can present you two binary challenge solutions!

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  • hxp CTF 2022 tex_based_adventure: Post-CTF writeup

    April 11, 2023

    Game reversing challenges aren't rare and maybe you already know that LaTeX has full programming language support. But did you ever see a game implemented in it?

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  • KITCTFCTF22 Slots

    February 10, 2023

    Two months ago I wrote my first ever CTF challenge. Let's look at it together in this author writeup!

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  • Writeups from DiceCTF 2023

    February 9, 2023

    As it is my main field of interest currently, I mainly worked on reversing challenges this DiceCTF. I'll go over the challenges parallelism and not-baby-parallelism, two challenges I really enjoyed. So let's dive right in!

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  • About this blog

    January 22, 2023

    I just started my blog. Find out more about its goals and topics here.

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