-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call for Paritipation: C.I.P.H.E.R Contest Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:36:28 +0200 From: Maximillian Dornseif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [email protected]
We are organizing an CTF-alike contest which might be of interest to the readers of this group: http://lufgi4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/news/show/31 RWTH hosts international contest on IT-Security The Laboratory for Dependable Distributed Systems at RWTH Aachen, headed by Prof. Dr. Felix Freiling, hosts an international contest on IT-Security on July 22nd. The contest called “CIPHER” is open to teams of students from universities and targets real-life security issues. Each team will have to host a server running multiple services, like WWW and e-mail, that have to be kept running correctly during the exercise. The automated scoring system will judge services for uptime and correctness. The unusual experience for most students will be that attacking the other team’s server is not only encouraged but also an essential part of the contest. Every successful attack is awarded, while the compromised team’s scores are reduced. The contest will not be held in the public internet, of course, but in a secured Virtual Private Network. This way, each team can attend the exercise from its own university and there will be no sideeffects on the world wide web. The contest allows students to gain real-life experience with practical methods of IT-security and perfectly supplements traditional education at universities. “Only if you know the methods of an attacker you’re able to defend your own systems properly.”, comments Prof. Dr. Felix Freiling whose laboratory will host and organize the event. There are still free slots for participants. Universities, as well as students, are encouraged to contact the organizers for details on how to participate. Teams of up to five students from a single university can apply for participation. The students should be able to administrate Linux systems, read and write code in some modern programming languages, and be somewhat skilled in exploitation techniques. The event will be on Friday, July 22nd 2005. At RWTH Aachen university there will be a local event for bystanders, groupies and the interested public providing live coverage of the event. The local organization is done by the Laboratory for Dependable Distributed Systems, headed by Prof. Dr. Felix Freiling and supported by the channcelors office of the RWTH. Point of contact is Lexi Pimenidis, assistant at the Chair for Communication and Distributed Systems: contact Lexi Pimenidis [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49 241 80-21419 More information on the contest can be found at http://www-i4.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~lexi/cipher.php -- Maximillian Dornseif Laboratory for Dependable Distributed Systems, RWTH Aachen University Tel. +49 241 80-21431 - http://md.hudora.de/ --- Detalii despre listele noastre de mail: http://www.lug.ro/
