ACS Keysight CTF will take place for 36 hours starting from Friday, April 12, 2024, 9pm EEST, until Sunday, April 14, 2024, 9am EEST. EEST = Romania time

In order to take part in the CTF contest, you have to register a team. In order to win one of the three prizes, you need a one-person team. If you took part in the previous contests for ACS Keysight CTF, then you may already have an account, and you can use that; use password recovery if you don't recall the password.

Prize winners will be announced after the contest; they need to submit a write-up of their solutions and proof of their being a school or university bachelor students. Anyone can take part in ACS Keysight CTF, but only school and university bachelor students in Romanian universities are eligible for prizes. There will be three prizes for each of the two categories: (high) school and university bachelor:

• first prize: eMAG Gift Card - 1500 RON
• second prize: eMAG Gift Card - 1000 RON
• third prize: eMAG Gift Card - 700 RON

You will be required to provide identification that you are school or a university bachelor student.

Unless otherwise stated, flags use the format ACS_KEYSIGHT_CTF{Some_random_string}.

Join us on Discord for questions or hints: Invite Link. We use the acs-keysight-ctf-2024 channel.

Let's get cracking!

ACS IXIA CTF will take place for 24 hours starting from Saturday, April 22, 2023, 6pm EEST, until Sunday, April 23, 2023, 6pm EEST. EEST = Romania time

In order to take part in the CTF contest, you have to register a team. In order to win one of the three prizes, you need a one-person team. If you took part in the previous contests for ACS IXIA CTF, then you may already have an account, and you can use that; use password recovery if you don't recall the password.

Prize winners will be announced after the contest; they need to submit a write-up of their solutions and proof of their being a school or university bachelor students. Anyone can take part in ACS IXIA CTF, but only school and university bachelor students in Romanian universities are eligible for prizes. There will be three prizes for each of the two categories: (high) school and university bachelor:

• first prize: monitor
• second prize: smartwatch
• third prize: gaming chair

You will be required to provide identification that you are school or a university bachelor student.

Unless otherwise stated, flags use the format ACS_IXIA_CTF{Some_random_string}.

Join us on Discord for questions or hints: Invite Link. We use the acs-ixia-ctf-2023 channel.

Let's get cracking!

ACS IXIA CTF will take place starting from Saturday, April 9, 2022, 11am EEST, until Sunday, April 10, 2022, 11pm EEST.

In order to take part in the CTF contest, you have to register a team. In order to win one of the three prizes, you need a one person team. If you took part in the previous contests for ACS IXIA CTF, then you may already have an account and you can use that; use password recovery if you don't recall the password.

Prize winners will be announced after the contest; they need to submit a write up of their solutions and proof of their being a school or university bachelor students. Anyone can take part in ACS IXIA CTF, but only school and university bachelor students in Romanian universities are eligible for prizes. The will be three prizes:

• first prize: monitor
• second prize: smartwatch
• third prize: gaming chair

Unless otherwise stated, flags use the format ACS_IXIA_CTF{Some_random_string}.

Join us on Discord for questions or hints: Invite Link. Then, get acces to this year's ctf channels and a quick bonus by running the command:
?join_role_hjfa387y3vsa82e in any text channel.

Use the "acs-ixia-ctf-2022" channel.

Let's get cracking!

ACS IXIA CTF will take place starting from Saturday, April 17, 2021, 11am EEST, until Sunday, April 18, 2021, 11pm EEST.

In order to take part in the CTF contest, you have to register a team. In order to win one of the three prizes, you need a one person team. If you took part in the previous contests for ACS IXIA CTF, then you may already have an account and you can use that; use password recovery if you don't recall the password.

Prize winners will be announced after the contest; they need to submit a write up of their solutions and proof of their being a school or university bachelor students. Anyone can take part in ACS IXIA CTF, but only school and university bachelor students in Romanian universities are eligible for prizes. The will be three prizes:

• first prize: monitor
• second prize: smartwatch
• third prize: gaming chair

Unless otherwise stated, flags use the format ACS_IXIA_CTF{Some_random_string}.

Join us on Discord for questions or hints: Invite Link. Then, get acces to this year's ctf channels and a quick bonus by running the command:
?join_role_3e4a3b455cb7789 in any text channel.

Use the "acs-ixia-ctf-2021" channel.

Let's get cracking!

ACS IXIA CTF 2020 is over.

We had an amazing set of participants at ACS IXIA CTF 2020. 45 participants, 2 participants solving all challenges, 10 with over 1000 points.

We didn't expect to have contestants that will solve all challenges. We'll just have to do do some really hard challenges next year.

We will contact the winners for short descriptions of their solutions and discuss with them about receiving their prizes. We will annouce their official names here.

See you next year!

Use it wisely!

Have fun!

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There was a typo in the Independence Day and Everywhere challenge descriptions. The remote IP address is 141.85.224.104, not 141.84.224.104. Now it's fixed.

ACS IXIA CTF will take place starting from Saturday, May 2, 2020, 11am EEST, until Sunday, May 3, 2020, 11pm EEST.

ACS IXIA CTF 2020 will benefit from the support involvement of ROSEdu.

In order to take part in the CTF contest, you have to register a team. In order to win one of the three prizes, you need a one person team. If you took part in the previous contests for ACS IXIA CTF, then you may already have an account and you can use that; use password recovery if you don't recall the password.

Prize winners will be announced after the contest. Awarding will happen as soon as the COVID-19 situation will allow it. Anyone can take part in ACS IXIA CTF, but only bachelor students in Romanian universities are eligible for prizes. The will be three prizes:

• first prize: monitor
• second prize: gaming chair
• third prize: smartwatch

Please join the IRC channel #acs-ixia-ctf on Freenode for hints.

Let's get cracking!

ACS IXIA CTF will take place starting from Saturday, April 13, 2019, 11am, until Sunday, April 14, 2019, 11pm.

In order to take part in the CTF contest, you have to register a team. In order to win one of the three prizes, you need a one person team. If you took part in the previous contests for ACS IXIA CTF, then you may already have an account and you can use that; use password recovery if you don't recall the password.

Prize winners will be announced and awarded at the Ixia Challenge Awards Event, on Friday, April 19, 11am, Ixia Development Center, Știrbei Vodă 36. Anyone can take part in ACS IXIA CTF, but only bachelor students in Romanian universities are eligible for prizes. The will be three prizes:

• first prize: monitor
• second prize: gaming chair
• third prize: smartwatch

Please join the IRC channel #acs-ixia-ctf on Freenode for hints.

Let's get cracking!

We've added a new misc challenge: Devil. Enjoy!

And we're off. Enjoy the challenges! Have fun and happy cracking!

The contest will start on Saturday, April 14, 2018, 11am and will end on Sunday, April 15, 2018, 11pm, EEST (i.e. Romania time). For any support we will use the Freenode channel #acs-ixia-ctf.

Unless otherwise stated, flags use the format ACS_IXIA_CTF{Some_random_string}.

Create an account on this platform. If you took part in the previous contests for ACS IXIA CTF, then you may already have an account and you can use that; use password recovery if you don't recall the password.

In order to be eligible for the grand prize and be a part of the competition, you must follow the following rules:

0. You must be an one-person team consisting of a single undergraduate student at University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest. If you have a multi-person team and/or team members are not undergraduate students at UPB, you may still be part of the CTF but you will not be eligible for the grand prize.

1. Do not attack the infrastructure. If you find a problem with one of our tasks, please report to us.

2. You are not allowed to intercept the traffic of other teams or attack them. Any attempt to cheat on the contest will lead immediately to disqualification.

3. We will not score unintended solutions. We will ask you how you solved each task, and if the solution is not the correct one, we will take your points from the scoring platform. We may, instead, give some bonus points or extra hints to those who report unintended solutions.

4. The points that you receive on the scoring platform are valid only if you solved the task and know how to explain us the solution. If you take flags from other teams of someone that is not present at the CTF location solves the challenge for you, you will be disqualified.

5. Don’t ask for hints in private. We will only give hints that are available to all the teams.

6. Submit the flag as soon as you finish a challenge. If you submit all the flags at the end of the contest we will assume you didn't have time to work on all the tasks at once.

7. In case two teams have equal scores, the team that got to that score first will have the advantage.

ACS IXIA CTF will take place starting from Saturday, April 14, 2018, 11am, until Sunday, April 15, 2018, 11pm.

In order to take part in the CTF contest, you have to register a team. In order to win the grand prize (first place), you need a one person team. If you took part in the previous contests for ACS IXIA CTF, then you may already have an account and you can use that; use password recovery if you don't recall the password.

The winner of the grand prize will be announced and awarded at Ixia Day 2018, on Tuesday, April 17, 6pm, room EC101, the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers. Anyone can take part in ACS IXIA CTF, but only UPB bachelor students are eligible for the grand prize. The prize will be a gaming monitor: Monitor Gaming LED TN Samsung 28", UHD, HDMI, Display Port, LU28E570DS.

Please join the IRC channel #acs-ixia-ctf on Freenode for hints.

Let's get cracking!