Seven tasks spanning forensics, reverse engineering, cryptanalysis, and application security
The 2025 NSA Codebreaker Challenge was my first Codebreaker, and I completed all seven tasks, becoming one of 82 students to finish the full challenge. It was a …
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← Series overview The final task supplied a custom Android APK used to archive chat messages. It brought together application reverse engineering, archive …
Read More →A lesson in destination-specific authorization
← Series overview Task 6 shifted the investigation into a Mattermost environment. The challenge supplied persistent application data and an account with access …
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