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