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The 2006 Underhanded C Contest Begins

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the segmentation-fault-core-dumped dept.

Xcott Craver writes "The second annual Underhanded C Code Contest is live as of April 4th, and runs until July 4th. The object is to write malicious C code that looks perfectly readable and innocent under informal inspection of the source."

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  1. Re:Can someone explain this to me? by digitaldc · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    From the FAQ: Why?
    We were initially inspired by Daniel Horn's Obfuscated V contest in the fall of 2004. I was greatly impressed to see how even a short program to simply count characters in a text file can be made to fail, and fail only on one specific day.
    The longer answer is that my research interests are in covert behavior: detecting it, and getting past people who try to detect it.


    The prize is $100.00, I think it should be more IMHO.

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