Making and Breaking NSA's Codebreaker Challenge

For the past 10 years, the National Security Agency (NSA) has hosted the Codebreaker Challenge. This competition, written and run by NSA's technical experts, includes a new theme and challenge each year. The challenges are custom designed by NSA to mimic a real-world problem NSA faces in its mission and include up to 10 rounds of increasing difficulty including code analysis and reverse engineering. Starting with only 5 schools in 2013, the program has grown exponentially. In 2022, more than …

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