http://underhanded.xcott.com The official perfectly innocent web page for law-abiding good guys Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:24:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As you might have guessed, Binghamton University is a haven for security wonks. We in the electrical engineering department pursue research in the areas of information hiding, multimedia security, and digital forensics. If you are looking to pursue a Ph.D. in these or related areas, please consider applying. ... http://underhanded.xcott.com/?p=19 Introduction We hereby announce the fifth annual contest to write innocent-looking C code implementing malicious behavior. In many ways this is the exact opposite of the Obfuscated C Code Contest: in this contest you must write code that is as readable, clear, innocent and straightforward as possible, and yet it must ... http://underhanded.xcott.com/?p=18 At long last, here are the winners of the 2008 underhanded C contest. The 2008 contest had over 100 entries, a record for our contest. Sifting through them all and determining their underhanded behavior wasn't easy, but many of them fell into several standard approaches. The most common: XORing the ... http://underhanded.xcott.com/?p=12 My friends at NYU Polytechnic (formerly Brooklyn Polytechnic) sent me a link to the next Cyber Security Awareness Week challenge. CSAW is a big event with multiple security contests. One of them, inspired by the UCC, is an underhanded embedded system contest: Cryptographers, scientists and engineers in ... http://underhanded.xcott.com/?p=11 Several readers pointed out a bug in the PPM code. Thanks for the heads up, we'll fix that pronto. Edit: I think it is fixed. http://underhanded.xcott.com/?p=10 Introduction We hereby announce our fourth annual contest to write innocent-looking C code implementing malicious behavior. In many ways this is the exact opposite of the Obfuscated C Code Contest: in this contest you must write code that is as readable, clear, innocent and straightforward as possible, and yet it must ... http://underhanded.xcott.com/?p=8 Introduction We hereby announce our third annual contest to write innocent-looking C code implementing malicious behavior. In many ways this is the exact opposite of the Obfuscated C Code Contest: in this contest you must write code that is as readable, clear, innocent and straightforward as possible, and yet it must ... http://underhanded.xcott.com/?p=3