No Hack No CTF 2026
5 challenges with 5 published community solutions between them. Solution links go to CTFtime’s task page, which aggregates every writeup for a challenge - individual blog posts rot, the aggregator does not.
Full task list on CTFtimeCryptography2
Recover a plaintext or a key from something that was supposed to protect it. In practice: identify the scheme, find the parameter the author got wrong, exploit it.
- cryptography
- nohacknoctf
- ctf
- crypto
Same technique in picoCTF: StegoRSA, Timestamped Secrets, AES-ABC
- cryptography
- nohacknoctf
- ctf
- crypto
Same technique in picoCTF: StegoRSA, Timestamped Secrets, AES-ABC
OSINT2
Answer a question about the real world from public sources. The work is pivoting between identifiers, not exploiting anything.
- nohacknoctf
- misc
- ctf
- osint
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
- osint
- forensics
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
Web1
Reach data or functionality the application meant to keep from you - through its inputs, its tokens, or its trust in the client.
- nohacknoctf
- web
- ctf
Same technique in picoCTF: Client-side-again, dont-use-client-side, Irish-Name-Repo 3