PHDays IV: Registration is now open for Competitive Intelligence and Hash Runner online contests.

Competitive intelligence

Since the last Competitive Intelligence competition, much has changed in the information space. Snowden exposed the NSA, and it turned out that not only curious housewives watch the citizens on the Internet, but also professionals in expensive suits, not without the help of mathematicians from Massachusetts. The security of various cryptographic protocols, both proprietary and free, was not at all as high as we would like. Mathematical algorithms for working with big data in cloud solutions allow you to track the relationship of transactions seemingly reliable and anonymous Bitcoin-transfers ...

Three winners - those who will cope with tasks better and faster than all - will receive invitations to PHDays IV, where we will give them valuable prizes. The prize for the first place is the iPad. The competition itself will be held a week before the forum and will last two days - May 15 and 16.

You can register at http://www.phdays.ru/registration/ .
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For any questions related to the competition, write to ci@ptsecurity.com

This year's contest sponsor is Zecurion .

Hash runner

This year the competition will be held before PHDays, and participants will be able to attend the conference on May 21 and 22, the top three teams will receive invitations. The hash values ​​will be published before the contest. A sample list of algorithms for this year: Lotus5, dominosec, SHA-512, SHA-256, SHA-1, PHPass, Oracle, NTLM, MSSQL, md5crypt, MD5, DESCrypt.

Dates: 19:00 May 16 - 19:00 May 19 (Moscow time).
The prize for the first place - two R290x, for the second - one R290x, all three winners will receive souvenirs.

To participate, register at hashrunner.phdays.com .

For any questions related to the competition, write to hashrunner@phdays.com .