2024 eCTF

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the 2024 eCTF!

The final rankings are:

Rank	Team	Points
1	Carnegie Mellon University	41581
2	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	28660
3	Purdue University	26926
4	University at Buffalo	12558
5	Indian Institute of Technology Madras	8275
6	Delaware Area Career Center	8216
7	Ecole Royale de l’Air	7447
8	Indian Institute of Technology Indore	6614
9	Michigan State University	6393
10	University of Nebraska Omaha	5644
11	University of California, Irvine	4964
12	Florida Atlantic University	3974
13	Tennessee Tech University	3843
14	Tufts University	3803
15	University of Connecticut	3698
16	Colombe academy of Technology	3540
17	East Tennessee State University	3376
18	Kilgore College	3368
19	United States Coast Guard Academy	3316
20	Virginia Tech	3268
21	Michigan Technological University	3088
22	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	3020
23	Shawnee Mission Center for Academic Achievement	2572
24	United States Air Force Academy	2445
25	University of Texas at Arlington	2412
26	University of Colorado, Colorado Springs	2386
27	Oklahoma Christian University	2195
28	CyberAegis	2012
29	ISD 196	1198
30	Pace University	1192
31	University of New Haven	1044
32	University of Washington	666
33	University of California Los Angeles	609
34	University of California, Santa Cruz	606
35	City College of San Francisco	568
36	The Ohio State University	541
37	Georgia Institute of Technology 2	528
38	Northeastern University	525
39	Texas A&M University	525
40	Morgan State University	520
41	Georgia Institute of Technology 1	514
42	Singapore Management University 1	500
43	Duke University	492
44	Columbia University	473
45	California State University, Los Angeles	472
46	San Francisco State University	450
47	United States Cyber Games	450
48	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	450
49	Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott	400
50	University of California, Santa Barbara	383
51	Kansas State University	366
52	Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology	337
53	Strayer University	330
54	NorthWest Arkansas Community College	283
55	Saddleback College	268
56	Baldwin Wallace University	250
57	University of North Dakota	231
58	The Citadel	220
59	The University of Tulsa	216
60	Dakota State University	140
61	Norfolk State University	100
62	Springfield-Clark County Career Technology Center	100
63	Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad	83
64	West Virginia University	70
65	Lakota East High School 2	66
66	Florida International University	61
67	The University of Alabama	56
68	University of Florida	50
69	University of Maryland, Baltimore County	50
70	Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute	50
71	Lakota East High School 1	40
72	Symbiosis Institute of Technology	33
73	Parkway Spark!	25
74	Lakota West High School 1	20
75	Ipnet Institute of Technology	16
76	Center I (Albemarle County Public Schools)	8

Welcome to the 2024 eCTF!

This year, teams designed and implemented a supply chain security solution for microcontrollers on a medical device. The system had to securely verify the device integrity while keeping sensitive data confidential.

You are a member of a leading chip manufacturer’s embedded systems security team. One of your customers, a medical device company, has disclosed concerns around counterfeit versions of components that your company sells. To assuage their concerns and protect your company’s reputation, your team has been tasked with developing a system to verify the authenticity and integrity of your chips on medical device end products called the Medical Infrastructure Supply Chain (MISC).

The typical lifecycle of one of your companies’ components is shown in the image below. Your team will provide the tools to build components at the secure production facility, build the application processor at the medical device production facility, and tools to interact with the device both in operation for patients and at the repair facility. While your components must still work accurately inside of the customers devices, they must also provide mechanisms to protect the integrity of the system from attackers.

You and your team have been tasked with designing and building a system that solves this problem! How will you enable safe computing for patients globally?

Tip

We recommend starting with reading How to Approach the eCTF to help your team get started off on the right foot.

The following pages will outline the details of the competition.

Getting Started:

• 2024 eCTF Getting Started
  • How to Approach the eCTF
  • Machine Setup
  • MAX78000_FTHR
  • eCTF Breakout Board
  • Nix
  • Poetry
  • OpenOCD
  • Learning Resources
  • DAPLink

Schedule and Events

• Schedule
• Automated Testing Service
• Handoff
• BCI Training
• Poster Session
• Fortinet Training
• 2024 Award Ceremony
• Debugger Flag

Competition Specifications:

• System Architecture
• Functional Requirements
• Security Requirements
• Detailed Specifications

Competition Components:

• Reference Design
• Host Tools
• eCTF Bootloader

Flags and Points:

• Design Phase Flags
• Attack Phase Flags and Scenarios
• Documentation Points
• Post-Quantum Cryptography Side-Channel Analysis Challenge

2024 Glossary:

• 2024 Glossary