================================= Lab04: NSA Codebreaker Challenges ================================= Terrorists have recently developed a new type of remotely controlled Improvised Explosive Device (IED), making it harder for the U.S. Armed Forces to detect and ultimately prevent roadside bomb attacks against troops deployed overseas. The National Security Agency (NSA), in accordance with its support to military operations mission, has been asked to develop capabilities for use against this new threat. This will consist of six tasks of increasing difficulty, with the ultimate goals of being able to disarm the IEDs remotely and permanently render them inoperable without the risk of civilian casualties. There are six different levels or "tasks" to the challenge, with each one being progressively more difficult and building off of the previous tasks. The basic goal of each task is as follows: * Problems - Task 1: Compute a hash and identify IED network ports - Task 2: Refine IED network traffic signature - Task 3: Decrypt IED key file - Task 4: Disarm an IED with the key - Task 5: Disarm any IED without a key - Task 6: Permanently disable any IED * Refs - https://codebreaker.ltsnet.net/resources