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Reproducible solve notes from the CTFs we played under THEM?!.

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FHAES

Here it is! Fully Homomorphic AES encryption finally made practical. This is a remote challenge, you can connect to the service with: nc fhaes.challs.srdnlen.it 1337

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PwnSec CTF 202516 Nov 2025

Opera

Writer was too lazy to write a description, so here's this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVlgMEFu1PI

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V1t CTF 202509 Nov 2025

Talking Duck

Bro this duck is talking to me or something? I'm high or what?? Attachment: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XOVJwPqHTZBRRUiuve8E1VwBSmMyB4Us/view?usp=sharing

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V1t CTF 202509 Nov 2025

Specimen 512

An unmarked data file was recovered from an abandoned research server labeled only as Specimen 512 . No accompanying documentation, no metadata, and no obvious contents โ€” just a massive file filled with strange sequences. Some say it hides

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V1t CTF 202507 Nov 2025

The Forgotten Inventory

In the summer of 2007, a massive archive quietly surfaced - a meticulous ledger of items that once rolled across desert sands under foreign command. The file was structured, line after line, page after page, each entry tied to a unit whose

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ImaginaryCTF 202515 Sept 2025

certificate

As a thank you for playing our CTF, we're giving out participation certificates! Each one comes with a custom flag, but I bet you can't get the flag belonging to Eth007!

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ICTF 202514 Sept 2025

whoami

They can't leak what they don't know Please don't test your payloads on remote; use your own OpenRouter key. nc whoami.chal.imaginaryctf.org 1337

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ICTF 202514 Sept 2025

significant

The signpost knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't, by subtracting where it is, from where it isn't, or where it isn't, from where it is, whichever is greater. Consequently, the position where it is,

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NNSCTF 202505 Sept 2025

huffameg

I don't understand, this just needs to return true! Hey Alexa, play "Tante Sofies sinte vise" until we've solved this challenge...

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NNSCTF 202505 Sept 2025

breaker

Did you know that "breaking" a program can mean more than one thing? GDB certainly has its own idea of what that means. Unfortunately, a cat ran across my keyboard in the middle of debugging, and now everything looks like nonsense. Can you

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