I'm sorry for the bloat, I'd really recommend it, it's quite the talk of the town when it comes to securing data.

Sorry about any registry bloat caused.

The only encryption I am using are for archives. I tried to open Q1.tc with my archive tools with no good results.

I gotta go to bed, night all

Yes, but my tools didnt even recognize *.tc files as some files with keys. They open then as simple binary files so no chance. ;)


g'night :)

A nice contest and thanks both to reaver and wpegg (you really put forth some effort there!), but I'm not going to participate on that one. I dislike downloading random files from the internet (I'm not claiming any bad intentions on wpegg's side). It's a pity you didn't write a nice little HTML (or even Flash) application :p

Well I think it would require even more work and (at least in case of HTML) it could be easier to decipher without knowing the answers.

Aaaargh... Anyone knows how to write the answer to 9th question? I tried 21 combinations so far :P
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Nevermind :P

That was one of the greatest contests that i ever tried to participate (but this time i won :P).
Big thanks to reaver894 and wpegg :)

More work, yes, definitely. Depending on skill and knowledge, you'd need to invest at least 15 minutes of additional work.
Easier to decipher the answer, no, not by any means. I'm well aware that you can 'see the source code' (lacking a better means to describe, sorry) on both HTML and SWF with very little effort, but that won't be of any real help there. I can have a look at the source code behind TrueCrypt as well, after all, it's open source. That doesn't make it any easier to get the code though.
One benefit would be that you can 'parse' the input for correct writing though and thus avoid a scenario like yankowich83 obviously knowing the correct response, but failing to find the intended way of writing it out.

Edit: Congratulations yankowich83 ;)

Hey, if there's really a demand then next time I'll try and knock together a web site. I need to spruce up my ASP MVC skills anyway. Truecrypt was used because it was an easy tool to allow files to be provided in response to answers. I need to set myself up with some web space anyway, so next time I'll put a little app together.

It'd make me a happy Panda at least, and I guess Lexor would have participated that way as well. Not to mention that you'd likely have saved poor yankowich83 roughly 50 minutes of panic combination trying on proper input for the last question. Leaving the third dot blank was kind of... harsh ;)

Ugh. No comment! *bites own tongue* :p

Are you talking about some of these free 'web space' offers, about shared hosting, a VPS, or even a dedicated server?

I didn't write the questions or answers, I just chopped the image up and encrypted the files.

As for the web space, I'm a .NET programmer (which you clearly don't approve of), so I need to get some paid hosting of a windows server. There's not really any free .NET hosting. One of my colleagues at work found some very good looking deal, so when I'm back in on monday I'll find out how that worked out for him and sort myself out with it. I just need somewhere I can access an instance of IIS, a place to host the files, and ideally an instance of SQL Server express.

Morning all. Yes the questions and layout of the answers was me i gather a few people had a bit of trouble with 9.

Ill let you all in on a secret all the answers except the spell one were copied and pasted from the wikipedia page on DnD,

Wish is one of my favorite spells so i had to add that in.

Normally I'd go with PMing you now, but since reaver seems to be fine with a bit of chatting on his thread, I'll just add some more clutter ;) You might be surprised as to what free solutions there are :p

It comes with too many dependencies and too much bloat for my taste. One gets into the habit of relying on Windows based systems far too easy that way, at least from what I saw (unless you'd be fine using Mono and MySQL). While I use Windows for desktops myself, it's arguable how well suited Windows servers are for hosting (compared to Linux), but one's thing for sure, they add to the price tag ;)

What sort of budget would you have in mind? Do you expect business level quality for mission critical deployment? Managed or unmanaged service? Would you have a rough estimate on RAM/transfer/storage you'd require?

All three points you've made can be answered with the same statement. I've been meaning to get some hosting in order to keep my professional skills up to date. You see I'm currently stuck at work between SilverLight client side, or Java server side. As a result my Server side .NET skills have been losing their freshness, and I've not really started to pick up HTML5. So really I'm only going to be using some web space to do little projects which then strengthen my CV by allowing me to confidently state I know a technology. This is why Mono doesn't cut it, because employers don't tend to target that as their technology stack (Also because those b@st@rd$ at Attachmate have all but mothballed the project).

As I said, one of my colleagues at work appeared to have found some very affordable and very capable hosting, so I'll pick that up when I find out some details from him.

Anyway, lack of hosting at present doesn't stop me writing something, so I think I'll knock together a little framework app for Goglers to use for competitions. Just for fun (and training).