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Winner of the 2015 Underhanded C Contest Announced (underhanded-c.org)

Posted by timothy on from the use-it-for-good dept.

Xcott Craver writes: The Underhanded C contest results have now been announced. This time the contest challenge was to cause a false match in a nuclear inspection scenario, allowing a country to remove fissile material from a warhead without being noticed. The winner receives $1000 from the Nuclear Threat Initiative.

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  1. Re:So winner's solution overrides standard type by Xcott+Craver · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hi,

    I didn't mention it on the page, but the C file that #includes that header doesn't #include math.h, so there is no typedef overridden. A second C file #includes math.h without #including that header.

  2. How about an "Understandable C Contest"? by T.E.D. · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've enjoyed these over the years. My personal favorite was the "English to Pig Latin" translator whose source code looked like ASCII Art for a pig.

    But really, if you can do stuff like that, you can do pretty much anything. So what's the point, really? Where's the challenge?

    A much more interesting contest would be to write C code that's simple and understandable. Yes, I said it, simple and understandable and in C. There's a challenge to bend the minds of the world's greatest programmers.