Collaborate Disseminate
Your home is your castle, and what’s better than a fully automatic castle? Nothing! That’s why we’re inviting you to submit your sweetest home automation hacks for a chance to …read more Continue reading Our Home Automation Contest Starts Now!
With the zombies, ghouls, and ghosts now safely returned to their crypts until next October, it’s time to unveil this year’s winners for the 2023 Halloween Hackfest. For this contest, …read more Continue reading 2023 Halloween Hackfest: This Year’s Spooky Winners
The Federal Trade Commission is running a competition “to foster breakthrough ideas on preventing, monitoring, and evaluating malicious voice cloning.”
Continue reading FTC’s Voice Cloning Challenge
The Federal Trade Commission is running a competition “to foster breakthrough ideas on preventing, monitoring, and evaluating malicious voice cloning.”
Continue reading FTC’s Voice Cloning Challenge
If you know, you know. After becoming fully engrossed in the sci-fi psycho-thriller “Severance“, [Ben Brooks] absolutely needed to have a version of the ominous speaker known as the Board. …read more Continue reading 2023 Halloween Hackfest: A Spooky “Severance” Speaker
On Halloween, some people can’t or don’t want to open the door for various reasons. Maybe they have a cat that likes to escape every chance it gets, or maybe …read more Continue reading 2023 Halloween Hackfest: Candy Basket Sees You Coming
This is a fun challenge:
The NIST elliptic curves that power much of modern cryptography were generated in the late ’90s by hashing seeds provided by the NSA. How were the seeds generated? Rumor has it that they are in turn hashes of English sentences, but the person who picked them, Dr. Jerry Solinas, passed away in early 2023 leaving behind a cryptographic mystery, some conspiracy theories, and an historical password cracking challenge.
So there’s a $12K prize to recover the hash seeds.
Some backstory:
Some of the backstory here (it’s the funniest fucking backstory ever): it’s lately been circulating—though I think this may have been somewhat common knowledge among practitioners, though definitely not to me—that the “random” seeds for the NIST P-curves, generated in the 1990s by Jerry Solinas at NSA, were simply SHA1 hashes of some variation of the string “Give Jerry a raise”…
Continue reading Bounty to Recover NIST’s Elliptic Curve Seeds
Now first of all, [Steph] grants that you can already take your pick of several LED pumpkin badges out there on IO. That’s not the point. The point is that …read more Continue reading 2023 Halloween Hackfest: Flickering Pumpkin Pin Is Solidly Built
We’re in the endgame now — there’s just about a month to go before the final judging will take place for the 2023 Hackaday Prize, which means all of our …read more Continue reading Hackaday Prize 2023: The Wildcard Finalists are Here
Halloween is possibly the hackiest of holidays. Think about it: when else do you get to add animatronic eyes to everyday objects, or break out the CNC machine to cut …read more Continue reading Hello, Halloween Hackfest!