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Embedded Capture the Flag:™
2022 Competition

2022: 

Teams secured an avionic device by designing a secure firmware update system and bootloader. The system must protect intellectual property and aircraft mission secrets in an untrusted environment, and ensure firmware protection and integrity in the face of supply-chain threats such as hardware trojans.

View Rules – View Technical Specs

 

 

2022 eCTF Winners

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Winning Teams

  • First Place Overall: Plaid Parliament of Pwning – Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Maverick Woo
  • Second Place Overall: scriptohio – The Ohio State University, advised by Rajiv Ramnath
  • Third Place Overall: ret2rev – Texas A&M University, advised by Martin Carlisle

Additional Awards:

  • Fortress Award: ret2rev – Texas A&M University, advised by Martin Carlisle
  • Dedication and Preserverence Award: 0xDACC – Delaware Area Career Center, advised by Eli Cochran
  • SCA Master Award: Plaid Parliament of Pwning – Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Maverick Woo
  • SCA Master Award: TechSec – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, advised by Mengjia Yan

Posters

 

Final Scores

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