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From: | Wunsch, Felix (CEL) |
Subject: | [Discuss-gnuradio] 2nd IEEE Signal Intelligence Challenge 2015: Final report |
Date: | Fri, 19 Jun 2015 14:19:39 +0200 |
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Hi all, I'm happy to
forward the final report on this year's IEEE Signal Intelligence
Challenge which we organized in Karlsruhe and Darmstadt in the
past months! -- Felix FINAL REPORT: After its debut in
2014, the 2nd Signal Intelligence Challenge was
organized by IEEE Student Branch Karlsruhe together with Secure
Mobile Networking Lab of Technical University (TU) Darmstadt from
April till June 2015. Eleven teams from
Karlsruhe and Darmstadt competed to solve a total of 25 different
challenges in the fields of Spectral Analysis, Signal Intelligence
and Cryptography in order to find flags which were e.g. hidden in
a Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Signal of which the teams had no
more a priori information than the band used for transmission.
Software defined radios, such as USRPs and RTL-SDR dongles were
used to receive the signals, while software such as Python, Matlab
and GNU Radio was used for data analysis and post processing. We were very happy
to have so many participating student teams, many of them
first-time SDR users and as they said, the challenge really got
them into it! At the end of a very exciting competition, last
year's winning team “FFT-Juchee” managed to defend their title
(228/250 points), followed by the team “Die Aluhüte”, who climbed
in a final effort of 24h hacking to 2nd place (90/250
pts.), leaving the third team “CypherTank” (81/250 pts.) barely
behind. We congratulate the winners! A video of the awards
ceremony held at this year's “Gulasch Programmier Nacht” (GPN15)
in Karlsruhe is available at: https://goo.gl/97j1WD To conclude, the
challenge was a great success, hopefully attracting the interest
of many new students to the field of Software Defined Radios. Our
great thanks go to the volunteers from ITI, SeeMoo, and CEL, who
were involved in organizing the challenge, and especially to our
sponsors, Ettus, the IEEE, and Rohde & Schwarz, who made the
challenge very attractive by sponsoring superb prizes: a USRP
B210, SDR-Sticks, books and beer! Without this support, such an
event would not be possible. We look forward to
the 3rd Signal Intelligence Challenge in 2016! Feel
free to contact us, if you want to bring the challenge to your
university! -- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Communications Engineering Lab (CEL) Felix Wunsch, M. Sc. Research Associate Kaiserstraße 12 Building 05.01 76131 Karlsruhe Phone: +49 721 608-46276 Fax: +49 721 608-46071 E-Mail: address@hidden www.cel.kit.edu KIT -- University of the State of Baden-Württemberg and National Laboratory of the Helmholtz Association |
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