Another great competition, this one aimed at girls who are interested in a career in cyber. It is run by our friends at the National Centre for Cyber Security and starts on 27th February. It will help pass the time until the next National Cipher Challenge in October!
CyberFirst GirlsA beginner's guide to code breaking
DownloadWell, that was amazing! Huge thanks to everyone who joined us to celebrate our fifteenth birthday yesterday. We were treated to amazing talks by Simon Singh and Nils Andersson, a fantastic workshop on phishing and white hat hacking by our good friends at Netcraft, and even the weather played nice, with blue skies and sunshine
National Cipher Challenge alumnus Julian Bhardwaj wrote a rough guide to computer programming for code breakers which he has kindly allowed us to post here for you. You don’t need to be a world class programmer to do well in the challenge, you can get a long way with a word processor, a spreadsheet and some cunning, but it really helps to automate the routine jobs, and these notes will get you started.
Programming for Cryptologists 101(Really, it does!) But what we mean here is that the competition has some rules, and you should probably know about them. We think they are clear, and they are certainly tested by time, but if you have any questions about them do contact us and we will try to get back to you within 24 hours. In the meantime you can read them here.
The rules