(Feb 16, 2020 11:05 AM)BV1 Wrote:  Would OP8 ever consider starting a CTF team to compete for rankings on CTFTime? I used to run my University's CTF team (graduated last year so no longer officially affiliated, but climbed to the top 50) and have been looking to start or join a new team.

(Feb 16, 2020 11:05 AM)BV1 Wrote:  Would OP8 ever consider starting a CTF team to compete for rankings on CTFTime? I used to run my University's CTF team (graduated last year so no longer officially affiliated, but climbed to the top 50) and have been looking to start or join a new team.

(Feb 16, 2020 12:16 PM)Lrrr Wrote:  I'm going to be real with you...that sounds fun and something I would be interested in talking about. But in reality something like what your talking about would need a dedicated team of atleast 2 or 3 members setting up the challenges, leaderboards, etc. The concept sounds fun, but the execution would take a lot of dedicated work...I just dont see us getting to a proper CTF with leaderboards on our current roadmap without some serious help. If that's something that interests you and you think you may be interested in putting together and leading an initiative like what your discussing let's talk. My other concern would be the CTF participants and prizes for leaderboard leaders....though something like CTF tied up with HF crews could be a neat idea if crews don't totally revolve around the hack game.

(Feb 16, 2020 12:24 PM)BV1 Wrote:  I don't mean setting up your own CTF's, as you're right, that's both time consuming and rather difficult. I just mean forming a team within OP8 that competes in the public/online CTF's that get posted to https://ctftime.org

Generally there's 1-2 CTF events per weekend, sometimes more, sometimes less. They range from challenging CTF's that are based around qualifying for more advanced in-person events, to beginner CTF's meant to introduce you to CTF's in general. Usually these events include anywhere from 10-30 challenges ranging from crypto, web exploitation, binary exploitation, reverse engineering, forensics, networking, and so on.

It's really enjoyable getting a group of 5-10 people together and hammering out these challenges, helping each other out as you go.

(Feb 19, 2020 12:00 PM)MavenGradle Wrote:  How's the recruitment process going so far?

(Feb 19, 2020 12:10 PM)Lrrr Wrote:  A bit underwhelming, We had thought about what you said (CTF's being too easy) but with the lack of interest from the general HF public it doesn't seem like anyone is really interested in the challenges.

That doesn't negate the fact that with the small team we currently have, we are working on some really cool ideas (I assume it will just take longer since I was expecting a bit more help)

Maybe once we release a few initiatives in March people will be more interested in OP8, I get it, we are a new group and not many people know the name, so I totally get the lack of response...I think it will be a different case entirely once a few of these ideas we have come to fruition.

(Feb 19, 2020 12:10 PM)Lrrr Wrote:  A bit underwhelming, We had thought about what you said (CTF's being too easy) but with the lack of interest from the general HF public it doesn't seem like anyone is really interested in the challenges.

That doesn't negate the fact that with the small team we currently have, we are working on some really cool ideas (I assume it will just take longer since I was expecting a bit more help)

Maybe once we release a few initiatives in March people will be more interested in OP8, I get it, we are a new group and not many people know the name, so I totally get the lack of response...I think it will be a different case entirely once a few of these ideas we have come to fruition.

(Feb 19, 2020 12:16 PM)MavenGradle Wrote:  Contributions to the programming sections would be greatly appreciated, by the way, so if you guys are planning on making any tutorials or best practices, that would be interesting to see!