Finnish Defence Forces' Cyber Challenge

In Finland we have a mandatory army service, this is the test you need to take and send in your answer before 20th of July if you want to apply for the army&#x27;s cyber security division. More info here in Finnish: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;erityistehtavat.puolustusvoimat.fi" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;erityistehtavat.puolustusvoimat.fi</a>

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Spoiler alert! Answers below:<p>===<p>===<p>===<p>===<p>===<p>Ad 1. Someone tries to exploit Internet Explorer. You see a command line which is subprocess of web browser (unlikely normal).<p>Ad 2. a) 16 days ~= (31337 <i></i> 4) &#x2F; (700 * 10<i></i>9 * 3600 * 24) b) 10 days ~= 95 <i></i> 9 &#x2F; (700 * 10 <i></i> 9 * 3600 * 24)<p>Ad 3. Lorem~Ipsum (Base64)<p>Ad 4. Yes. One of the programs guess the same as random, the other guess the opposite of random.<p>Ad 5. QWErty

Anyone get a solution to 7 that doesn&#x27;t involve a whole lot of steps? I did it in 44 steps, with the same 4 step combo being repeated 10 times in a row to work down to 0.3 liters.

That is pretty cool. I liked q9 since they named the characters after the RSA creators (Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, Leonard Adleman) and the question is most likely modular exponentiation.

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