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We remind you that publishing solutions on Internet (Youtube, Github, personal blog, ...) is forbidden.

Every player that won’t respect this rule will be banned and tagged as "leaker" (on every page where he occurs) as long as its solution stays publicly readable.

Root-Me has a lot of challenges, however, if we can easily find the solutions on Internet, intentionaly or not, there is no more "challenge".
Obviously, there will always have cheaters looking for the solutions to show their "big score", without knowing and learning anything. We don’t really care that much about cheaters.

Nevertheless, those are some reasons why we want to limit the proliferation of these solutions:

• Avoid spoiling a player looking for documentation on its current challenge
• Keep on Root-Me a convivial learning platform
• Stay consistent regarding the score and ranking, with its competitive spirit that a lot of you like (it’s human :p)
• Don’t daunt the authors of the challenges that see their work "destroyed" directly by publishing its solution on Internet
• Last but not least, don’t forget that you can share all your efficient or surprising solutions, directly on Root-Me (only the players that already solved the challenge can see them).

Even if this message concern a minority of you, thank you everyone for your comprehension.
Have fun on Root-Me.org!

The first Toulouse Hacking Convention will take place on March the 3rd in the premises of the INP-ENSEEIHT.
Before the CTF that will take place on night, you can assist all day to conferences about IT security.

The entrance is free, however seats are limited, so register now!
Stay tuned on https://toulousehackingconvention.fr/.

PS: more than ten kinds of beer will be available as well as free food ;)

Organized by Securimag, the 4th edition of the infosecurity and ethical hacking conference will be held in Grenoble (France) on November 18th.
The CTF will take place the evening with challenges in all domains of infosecurity.
New this year: a challenge awaits you at https://2016.challenge.grehack.fr/. It’s named Old Memories and contains several steps (forensic, web, etc.). A VIP ticket and awesome GreHack sweat-shirts will be offered to the quickest pwners. So what are you waiting for?

Your platform changes:

– We adopted a new design, we are expecting your feedbacks in the forum
– an online shop for Root-Me’s goodies
– a reward system for members who created new challenges
– A web ssh access to counter any types of problems and restrictions
– the tools section has been refreeshed
– New virtual machines have been added to the CTF all the day

Root Me’s staff wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year 0x7e0 !

Lots of presents are already planned for 2016.  😄

Don’t forget to help your portal which would be pleased to have his little present too.  😉

Good drill with us !

Now you can stay informed of all the news and all the new challenges of your platform by

following @rootme_org on Twitter.
Do you like spending time on challenges and always learn more skills ? Follow us and share around!

Root-Me made a big step forward and has now one foot in the IPv4 world and an other in the IPv6 hot and shiny one. The other good news is that you don’t have to do anything: it should just work with or without IPv6 support on your side.

Very few but some challenges remain IPv4 only though. The CTF AllTheDay architecture is ready for IPv6, but most of the CTF Virtual Machines are not and until we fix them, CTF will continue to be an IPv4 only thing (hopefully it won’t stay so for to long).

A big thanks to the team and especially to spump for the work behind this !

Due to a lot of abuse, and in order to clarify the situation, the legal disclaimer page has been modified; we invite you to consult it regularly.

Root me already offers to share your solutions with other players directly on the website, while not "spoiled" those who have not yet solved the challenge.

These rules should allow us to keep together an emulation’s spirit while continuing to learn infosecurity in a fun way.

The cryptanalysis challenge "Transposition — rail fence" suffered from two main problems:
– key was badly chosen and the challenge was a corner case of the algorithm
– the cleartext was the result of an encryption instead of decryption as one would normally expect: this is against the philosophy behind this plateform, especially for easy challenges

The challenge has thus been rectified, previous validations were reset. Submitted solutions have also been removed as they were not correct but working for the corner case.

Thanks for your understanding!

Root Me is proud to announce a new sponsor : Navixia, a Swiss company specialized in information security.

This sponsorship offers us new possibilities to give you a more powerful platform and new services to train yourself in an increasingly realistic environment.