The cZip Challenges
Test your skills and the security of the AURA protocol.
The Payload Injector
Grab a free flash drive from the bucket, choose your OS (Windows, Linux, or Mac), and plug it into a Payload Injector. The device will load the cZip application and all challenge files onto the drive. When the light turns green, you're ready to go!
The $500 Codebreak
- Goal: Decrypt `target.png` from the `main_challenge` folder and recover the original payload file.
- Constraint: The image was concealed using only the AURA protocol. No other compression or encryption layers were used.
- Prize: A $500 prize pool will be split evenly among the first five successful entries.
The $100 Impossible Transfer
- Goal: Move the AURA payload from its original image to a *different* image and prove it can still be extracted successfully.
- Constraint: This is a test of the AURA protocol itself. The burden of proof is high; requires documentation of the process.
- Prize: $100 for the first person to achieve the impossible.