Olympics Cryptokit - 2017
Cryptokit - 2017
"Cool, interesting, fun!" - these words describe one of the participants last January 28, in the branch of the Olympics in cryptography "Cryptokit - 2017". Competition among the best specialists in the solving of ciphers was held in the framework of the I-th Interregional forum on information security "IT-Wall". In the competition took part 8 teams from educational institutions of Smolensk and the team from the Belarusian state technological University.
The unusual shape of the Olympics — it was necessary to solve the cipher in three different computer classrooms, and a word from the previous cipher was one of the keys to the next — has led to a dramatic struggle.
The first cipher could have unraveled the team of "Sherlock", representing a branch. However, a small carelessness led to the fact that they are trapped contained in the job. Having dealt quickly with the problem, the team leaders came to the second task and also faster than all coped with it. Behind them with a small gap were the team the zodiac, representing the Smolensk state University.
The last task was the most difficult, and demanded from the participants a lot of effort. As a result, it is the "zodiac" faster than all coped with sophisticated encryption and won in the Olympics. Second and third place went to the teams of the branch of "Sherlock" and "Kryptos".