Posted by LaZaRuS on 1/20/2000, 1:52 am
212.139.141.180
Greetings Crackers Welcome to the revival of the "Cracking-Challenge Forum". In the "good ol' times" (the last project started 2/2/1999) +Sandman ran this forum to hold cracking projects to teach newbie crackers how to crack a specific app in a very detailed way. The idea behind it was that all people help each other to gain as much information about a target as possible and to a stronger increase of ones knowledge as if he only cracks alone.
So far about +Sandman - now to me ;)
It was quite sad to see that this extremely useful newbie challenge stopped. I don't know what the reasons were, but most probably the same that made +Sandman stop working so much on his site of RCE (Less teaching, more learning - if I remember right).
Whatever, after I mailed him and told him my ideas (by that time I had already worked out the project ;) he was quite happy that I wanted to reopen the forum and he supported me by getting and configuring a new messageboard as the old one was abused for crack requests.
The new project will start next Friday, 14th of January 2000. I will try to maintain the project nearly like +Sandman used to. I will upload the first tasks on Friday and when I believe you had enough time and the people here have worked out good results, I will upload the next few tasks. The target program will be uploaded next Friday, too, so nobody is able to start earlier.
btw: The name "challenge" does *NOT* refer to your speed how fast you crack all possible tasks, but to the detail-level your solution has and the result of the complete cracking community that participates. To achieve most, please help the ppl that are not as far as you are.
Now, some guidlines:
Forum Guidelines (mostly taken from +Sandman):
1. Although this challenge was originally created for newbies I don't care if experiences crackers take as long as they obey the rules and help the less experienced people.
2. Every cracker should start *ONE* message-thread for his solutions and post all of his solutions for the different tasks as answers to the first message. This will decrease the size of the forum and makes it easier to maintain.
3. Any postings NOT related to this cracking challenge will be DELETED. The same happens if you post solutions for tasks I have not already set.
4. Don't worry if you can't answer all the questions I set you, someone somewhere will proberbly be able to answer it. Don't forget, this is a combined effort so help each other.
5. If you arrive here while a cracking project is underway then by all means still join in!. Just read all the postings on this forum to see where everyone is at. There is plenty of time between each stage of cracking to allow you to catch up.
6. PLEASE use the <Pre> & </pre> tags to make your deadlistings readable.
7. If in doubt ASK.
Good luck
LaZaRuS