Title: 24h des iut informatique
Date: 2012-04-16 09:14

Hello everyone,
I’m back from the 6th edition from the [24h des IUT informatique][]
contest, in Montreuil (Paris, FRANCE).

Challenges
==========

This contest last 24h, and was divided in 3 parts, lasting 8h each:

-   Network application
-   Web development
-   Security

The team
========

We were 6 people, every one dedicated to one domain :

-   A Windows guy ( PJ )
-   A programmer ( Y )
-   A web guy ( C )
-   Myself (security)
-   Two guys of all trades ( P and S )
    We fought against 34 other teams.

Part1: network application
==========================

Like the last year, we had to create a bot to fight/cooperate with those
coded by other teams.
Our bot was name *patricia.py* (After the name of the IUT’s secretary :
Patricia Py), and it was of course Python powered !
I wrote the code, and the algorithms was from me, PJ, Y and S.
We finished on the *6th* place.

Part2: web development
======================

We had to create a wiki with history support, markup, rights, … and we
did it (thanks to *C* who did an *amazing* work) !
It was the first time that I saw nice-looking and well designed php
code.
We finished on the *2th* place!

Part 3: security
================

The organization gave us a false password to access to the security
platform, and of course this part was speed-based (the first team to
complete a part was awarded with more points that the 2d, and so on) : I
think we missed a lot of easy points because of this :/
This part was full of classics : buffer overflow, design flaw in code,
crackme, SQL injections, holes in website, steganalyse, network
security, …
PJ and P focused on website breaking, S worked on network smash down,
and Y and me worked on software/logic related security.
We finished (sadly) on the *6th* place.

Conclusion
==========

This was a really nice experience. But 24h without sleep, focused on a
screen, was *realy* stressful.
We ended on the *4th* place on the global rank; not bad, but we could
have done better !
Maybe a place on the podium for the next year?

  [24h des IUT informatique]: http://www.iut.univ-paris8.fr/node/665