This weekend I played in KashiCTF 2025 organized by the IIT BHU Cybersec. I played mostly the crypto challenges and had time to solve all but one. Today I’ll write-up the crypto/Random-Inator and crypto/MMDLX challenges as it had only 37 and 52 solves respectfully.

This weekend was busy with 4 or 5 simultaneous CTFs tracked on CTFTime. I played a few and enjoyed Codefest 2025 organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT BHU. I played across the usual pwn, rev, crypto categories. One I chose to write-up was the crypto/Really Shy Algorithm challenge.

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This weekend in Sydney was the annual BSides Sydney conference. This year I contributed some challenges to the CTF competition so I’ll take the opportunity to post the writeups for the challenges I wrote for those who were playing to CTF.

This weekend I played DownUnderCTF 2023. The fourth instalment of the now huge DownunderCTF. This round they provided a new category of beginner challenges all grouped together. I did the majority of these as well as some other challenges.