Event: UofTCTF 2026 Category: Cryptography / Side-Channel Team: w4llz Rank: 48th out of 1,225 Teams (Top 4%!) 🚀 Author:K70n0s510\Nicholas Mullenski
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This weekend, The team that i am apart of, w4llz, participated in the University of Toronto CTF (UofTCTF) 2026. It was a massive event with over 1,200 teams competing from around the world. We pushed hard and secured a 48th place finish, landing us squarely in the top 4%.
While my teammates were doing the heavy lifting on the Web and Pwn challenges (huge shoutout to the whole squad for carrying the load!), I dove into a Cryptography challenge that looked impossible at first glance.
Points: 179 (Dynamic Scoring) Difficulty: Medium
The premise was deceptively simple. The server generates a random 100-bit integer (x). We have to guess it.
The Catch:
In a standard binary search (asking “Is x>y?”), you eliminate half the possibilities with each question. This…