During our lectures, like “IT security” in the Bachelor's and “Real World Crypto Engineering” in the Master's degree, we regularly use CTF challenges as a teaching aid. But both the platform—developed in a project group some time ago—and the challenges have become dated. The platform can be unstable at times, leading to frustration of students trying to solve challenges.

The goal of this project group will be to adapt one of the many open-source platforms for hosting CTF challenges to our needs and to develop new challenges. This requires programming skills in general (the language depends on the project you decide to adapt) and a foundational understanding of IT security (you should have heard at least one of our courses or a similar one).

We will provide strict requirements for the framework that need to be fulfilled (TBD).