Merry Christmas! The Lain.La CTF is here! This is your chance to win 0.001 BTC!
Note: As of 12/3/2022, the CTF is now broken. You cannot complete it anymore.
Rules:
- You do not need to hack any of my shit for this. All of the clues and challenges are solvable without password cracking, breaking my shit, etc. This is primarily a steganography based CTF, not a "ooh wow look at my buffer overflowzzz!!!" CTF.
- If you do hack my shit trying to find the flag without following the actual puzzle flow you are immediately disqualified.
- It is impossible to sabotage others during the CTF as all of the lain.la infra touchpoints along the way are read-only. So don't try.
I honestly have no idea how difficult this should be so I went for a middle of the road approach. Maybe some autist will solve it in 30 minutes, idk. The challenge is roughly 6 steps deep and it'll be very clear once you've won though. You'll need to use your brain and some moderate technical ability to find the way through. Good luck!
The starting clue: This is stage 1. Lain.la is stage 1.
UPDATE: Someone already won.
The solution set will be posted in a separate article in case you still want to try your hand at my puzzle (I'll leave all the stuff up).
The winner prefers to remain anonymous.