http://underhanded-c.org The official perfectly innocent web page for law-abiding good guys Mon, 03 Nov 2014 00:23:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The 7th Underhanded C Contest is now open. The goal of the contest is to write code that is as readable, clear, innocent and straightforward as possible, and yet it must fail to perform at its apparent function. To be more specific, it should do something subtly evil. Every ... http://underhanded-c.org/?p=26 There were over 40 submissions this last year, which was a lot to judge (especially since some submitters do not provide any hints about their bugs!) It also resulted in a lot of really great hacks, too many to simply list as a few runners up. This summary ... http://underhanded-c.org/?p=23 After many years of the dead air um dead air, the Underhanded C Contest is back. The goal of the contest is to write code that is as readable, clear, innocent and straightforward as possible, and yet it must fail to perform at its apparent function. To be more specific, it ... http://underhanded-c.org/?p=21 Apologies for the incomprehensibly long delay. The Underhanded C contest is alive again, and here are the winners of the previous contest. Here are the runners up, and the winner, of the Fifth Underhanded C Contest. The sixth contest will be announced later today, April 1st. The prize, because of ... http://underhanded-c.org/?p=20 As you might have guessed, Binghamton University is a haven for security wonks. We in the electrical engineering department pursue research in the areas of information hiding, multimedia security, and digital forensics. If you are looking to pursue a Ph.D. in these or related areas, please consider applying. ... http://underhanded-c.org/?p=19 At long last, here are the winners of the 2008 underhanded C contest. The 2008 contest had over 100 entries, a record for our contest. Sifting through them all and determining their underhanded behavior wasn't easy, but many of them fell into several standard approaches. The most common: XORing the ... http://underhanded-c.org/?p=12