THCon 2K25 CTF
14 challenges with 14 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.
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Answer a question about the real world from public sources. The work is pivoting between identifiers, not exploiting anything.
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
Cryptography1
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.
Same technique in picoCTF: StegoRSA, Timestamped Secrets, AES-ABC
Misc1
Everything that fits no other box: esolangs, puzzles, scripting exercises, and the jail escapes that have not yet earned their own category.
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook