More than meets the eye . . . or ears

Inspiration

My love for music and cyber security. I had to challenge myself to make a ctf which I have never done.

What it does

Challenges the hacker to think outside of computers and software. To think about how each hacker is unique and will implement their own interest/hobby to encrypt information

How we built it

I used ciphers, recorded audio provided by my cousin. I used online instruments, and a test subject to test out the flag

Challenges we ran into

A lot of revising the hints and the encrypted message. Bad audio with the attempt of a spectrogram. I had to revise what the hacker will look for about 5 times to make it easier for them to find. Lots of websites would give me the wrong output so I had to put spaces and or delete symbols so it would be fully encrypted.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Managed to make a ctf in general. I had no idea it took a lot of effort, trial and error, and living testing to get something that actually works.

What we learned

I learned how to use a lot of new platforms such as audacity, online pianos, keeping an open mind that not everyone is musically inclined so we had to make a bit easy to use something that they would know, the UMBC alma mater

What's next for More than meets the eye . . . or ears

I will try to make the spectrogram and add many other parts to it but more on the software side as well.

Built With

• ciphers
• instruments