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QHack 2023 - Fall of Sqynet Track

QHack 2023 - Fall of Sqynet Track

Overview and walkthrough of the Xadanu QHACK 2023 Fall of Sqynet Track. Five challenges increasing in difficulty with a focus Ising Hamiltonians and QML to train a series of circuits on unknown grading input to within a tolerance.

Qiskit Quantum Challenge - Fall 2022

Qiskit Quantum Challenge - Fall 2022

Overview and walkthrough of the IBM Qiskit Fall 2022 Quantum Challenge which had a focus on Qiskit runtime and the primitives sampler and estimator. This post will cover how the challenges were solved and lessons learned.

A 2022 Personal Recap & Look Forward

A 2022 Personal Recap & Look Forward

A personal recap on 2022 events, announcements, hobbies, and look at what the new year will bring across the quantum ecosystem, cybersecurity events, and more miscellaneous personal growth.

Qiskit Quantum Challenge - Spring 2022

Qiskit Quantum Challenge - Spring 2022

Overview and walkthrough of the IBM Qiskit Spring 2022 Quantum Challenge with a focus on how the challenges were solved and lessons learned.

NSEC 2022 - Safe Cracking

NSEC 2022 - Safe Cracking

Walkthrough of NSEC 2022's Safe Cracking Challenge. Originally planned as a physical track the challenge was adapted to a computer variant. This post will cover the basics of safe cracking theory, how it translates to our provided challenge material, and ultimately the solution.

NSEC 2022 - N64 - ROM Reverse Engineering

NSEC 2022 - N64 - ROM Reverse Engineering

Walkthrough of NSEC 2022's two Nintendo 64 challenges. This post will cover the ROM analysis, including loading into Ghidra, extracting debug symbols from a separately provided dump, and then stepping through the logic loop to determine the right input.