The Underhanded C Contest
Key takeaways
- The official perfectly innocent web page for law-abiding good guys
- We have judged all submissions, and are pleased to announce the runners up and winner of the 2015 Underhanded C Contest.
- Finally, we are going to run a live Reddit AMA ("Ask Me Anything," for those of you who, like me, still use a tape recorder and a Commodore PET CBM) next Tuesday, February 9th, at 1:00pm.
The official perfectly innocent web page for law-abiding good guys
We have judged all submissions, and are pleased to announce the runners up and winner of the 2015 Underhanded C Contest. This year we had over 40 submissions, and they were all of high quality. As a result, our list of runners up is pretty long. I will provide anchor links below if you want to skip ahead. This year's challenge (detailed below) is a real-world problem in nuclear verification, sponsored by and designed in partnership with the Nuclear Threat Initiative (http://www.nti.org/), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working to reduce the threat of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. We hope that this emphasizes the need for care and rigor, not to mention new research, in secure software development for such applications.
Finally, we are going to run a live Reddit AMA ("Ask Me Anything," for those of you who, like me, still use a tape recorder and a Commodore PET CBM) next Tuesday, February 9th, at 1:00pm. We'll post more specifics later, but if you have questions about Underhanded C, the contest or the problem, this will be a great opportunity to ask.