The 7th Underhanded C Contest Is Online

Xcott Craver writes The 7th Underhanded C Contest is now open. The goal of the contest is to write code that is as readable, clear, innocent and straightforward as possible, and yet somehow exhibits evil behavior that cannot be seen even when staring at the source code. The winners from 2013 are also online, and their clever and insightful submissions make for fun reading.

Comments

New twist this time

[Anonymous Coward]

Previously the contest has been about doing nefarious stuff to the user of the program while keeping the code innocuous.
This time, they want you to clandestinely warn users of government spying. It's a complete about-face on the definition of "underhanded". I love it.

Re:New twist this time

[alvinrod]

Or it gives some insiders who might want to do such a thing a few ideas of how to go about it while maintaining plausible deniability.

Re:The previous entry page leads to 404

[Xcott Craver]

That's not a defunct link to previous entries, but a defunct link to a previous version of the contest site. I've un-defuncteded it to more recent previous version of the contest site, but soon that will also be defunctitated or defunctified, or defunctored.

You can see the previous entries by scrolling down, or by selecting "past years" from the menu bar on the web page.

Re:The previous entry page leads to 404

[gstoddart]

I've un-defuncteded it to more recent previous version of the contest site, but soon that will also be defunctitated or defunctified, or defunctored.

What defunct are you talking about? ;-)

Re:The previous entry page leads to 404

[oodaloop]

I've un-defuncteded

So it's totally funct now?

Not so clever

[slashdice]

were that true, CVE wouldn't be a thing.

OpenSSL

[Anonymous Coward]

Sorry guys but this year's winner hands down is OpenSSL.

Re:OpenSSL

[swillden]

Sorry guys but this year's winner hands down is OpenSSL.

No, underhanded C submissions have to be readable, clear and straightforward. OpenSSL is none of those.