Secure Racing – Cipher 1

I’m a big fan of motor sport; I’m an even bigger fan of ciphers, so when the two are combined together it’s great news for me. Recently I was lucky enough to get an all access pass to Brands Hatch to watch the inaugural race of the new Secure Racing GT Team.

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Using HMAC in PHP or C#/VB.net

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Cyber Security Challenge – Xmas Cipher

How I cracked and won the Xmas cipher challenge

On the 24th December, Cyber Security Challenge UK released a new cipher challenge, this was meant to keep us entertained over the festive period.

This challenge was aimed at anyone who wanted to take part, it was designed to be “devious” so with that let's begin.

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Cyber Security Challenge – Cipher 2

How I cracked and won the second challenge

On the 7th October, Cyber Security Challenge UK released the first of three new challenges, this article will discuss the second challenge, which was released on Friday.

This challenge was aimed at university students but anyone could take part. I personally thought this challenge would be much harder to complete than the original opening challenge and the one aimed at under-18's. The challenge was designed to test both your technical and investigative skills, with that let's begin.

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Cyber Security Challenge – Cipher 1

How I cracked the first challenge

On the 7th October, Cyber Security Challenge UK released the first of three new challenges, this article will discuss the first challenge, which was released on Thursday.

The first challenge was aimed at under-18′s, so I didn’t think it would be too difficult to solve. From the CSC's website you were given two clues as to how to go about cracking this challenge. First you needed a basic understanding of encoding and second, you needed to know something about cryptography, with that lets begin.

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