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Underhanded C Contest announces winners

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the games-people-play dept.

Matthew Skala writes "The 2005 Underhanded C Contest has announced its winners: the team entry from M Joonas Pihlaja and Paul V-Khuong, and the solo entry from Natori Shin. The contest (which appeared on Slashdot in June) tests programmers' ability to hide malicious behaviour in innocent-seeming code, making it a kind of evil shadow twin to the International Obfuscated C Contest."

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  1. good to see by garat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Having a contest like this has similar positive aspects as full disclosure concerning vulnerabilities; by providing examples of how it's done, people will be better able to spot such attempts were they to occur. I'm happy to see this contest being held.

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