2005 Activities

Throughout the weekend at RUXCON there are both RUXLAN and social activities held for attendees to enjoy. Some activities allow you to test your computer knowledge and give you the chance of winning prizes, while others are solely for the purpose to entertain during lunch and drink breaks.

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RUXLAN Activities

A LAN is available to attendees at RUXCON. The LAN is used for some competitions and also general file and information sharing.

Capture The Flag Competition
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Exploit Development Competition
The exploit development competition allows attendees to put their exploit development skills to the test. The vulnerable levels for the competition demonstrate a range of vulnerabilities from very simple to advanced.

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Reverse Engineering Competition
The Reverse Engineering competition is actually two competitions in one. People not adept in one of the fields of crypto or reverse engineering can participate inthe other section of the competition and should not be hampered in their progress.

A very flawed cryptographic program has been custom written for this competition. Many hints about this will be given out during the competition, depending on the rate at which general contestants are working. Step one will be released early on at RUXCON, it will involve the release of a binary of the encryption program. The winner will be the first person to submit a description of the algorithm, and, using this, the decryption algorithm. Anybody finding the encryption algorithm contained in the binary should be able to write a decryption algorithm with minimal difficulty.

Competition two will begin at the completion of competition one. The source code to the encryption program used in step one will be released. Using this source code, a competitor must write a program to crack the encryption algorithm, and produce the key.

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Social Activities

Social events are of a relaxed nature and are held in the main social area of RUXCON, where there's seating, a bar, and stage area. This allows attendees to either sit back and watch the activities, or participate themselves with the chance of winning some cool prizes.

RUXCON Panel Discussion
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RUXCON Trivia
The Trivia is a social event where attendees can participate in a hacker trivia competition. The competition will be in the bar area and will be run over a lunch break so everyone can enjoy a beverage while testing their IT knowledge, with the opportunity of winning some cool prizes.

The trivia will be done in rounds, and questions will range from relatively easy to advanced. Question topics will include: hacking; computing; security; history; and programming.

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Chilli Eatoff
The chilli eating competition allows daring attendees to step up and see who can stomach the most chilli, while others not so gutsy may sit back comfortably and enjoy the firey action.

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Pool Competition
Another one of our social activities is the RUXCON Pool competition, held towards the end of the conference.