CSE students secure first position in “Capture the Flags” challenge
Jijin K Haridas (S2 BTech CSE-A) and Vishnu K (S4 Btech CSE-B) secured first position in a competition named “Capture the Flag” held at School of Technology and Applied Sciences, Edapally, Ernakulam, an institution directly run by the Mahatma Gandhi University. The competition, with a prize money of Rs.2000, was held on 27 February 2019 as a part of Likha 19.
What is Capture the Flags challenge?There are two main types of Capture the Flags (CTFs) challenges:
Jeopardy-style CTF Jeopardy-style competitions usually involve multiple categories of problems, each of which contains a variety of questions of different point values and difficulties. Teams attempt to earn the most points, but do not directly attack each other. Rather than a race, this style of game play encourages taking time to approach challenges and prioritizes quantity of correct submissions over the timing. Attack-defence CTF In an attack-defense style competition, each team is given a task to defend a network or server and the other will attack it. Depending on the nature of the particular CTF game, teams may either be attempting to take an opponent’s flag from their machine or teams may be attempting to plant their own flag on their opponent’s machine. |