For everyone playing around with Crypto there are certainly moments where the developed and implemented algorithm does just the opposite of what is expected; which leads to the code thrown off in some dark corner of the hard-disk. If this is same case with you, now is the good time to get all those codes that out because there is a new crypto competition!
The Underhanded Crypto Contest is a competition to write or modify crypto code that appears to be secure, but actually does something evil. For example:
* A password hashing library that always accepts the password “monkey.”
* A MAC algorithm that can be broken if you know some fixed secret key.
* Something that leaks the key through a reliable side channel, padding, IV, etc.
* A user interface that makes it easy to accidentally spread your secrets all over the Internet.
Submission deadline is Dec 2, 2014, in accordance to the rules
Winners will be announced on Dec 30, 2014.