Z0D1AK CTF

Five solved challenges, writeups reconstructed from session traces and independently re-verified: recomputed offline, or replayed against a local test instance, rather than taken on faith.

Black Box

Forensics

Reverse-engineering an undocumented 16-byte binary telemetry record format.

⚡ 110 pts👥 251 solves✎ Praneet

Siren

Cryptography

Breaking ECDSA via a Hidden Number Problem lattice attack on a biased nonce.

⚡ 112 pts👥 209 solves✎ Abhi404

Rewind

Cryptography

Two-time-pad keystream recovery from a stream cipher that never advances its counter.

⚡ 115 pts👥 177 solves✎ theg1239

Rewind Revenge

Cryptography

The AES-GCM Forbidden Attack: forging an authenticated tag from a single reused nonce.

⚡ 118 pts👥 154 solves✎ theg1239

Uncharted Tides

OSINT

Geolocating a hillside church from a single unlabeled photograph.

⚡ 136 pts👥 83 solves✎ Gaurav