Cryptex League

Season one is open

Break the cipher. Climb the league.

A free competition for UAE university students. Solve cryptography puzzles, answer information security questions and keep up with the threats in the news. New challenges unlock through the season.

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Top of the league

Full leaderboard

Nobody has scored yet. The first solve takes first place.

What you will be solving

Cryptography

Classical ciphers, encodings, hashes, block modes and public keys. Some you can solve on paper, some need a few lines of code.

5 open, 3 still locked

Information security

How systems are protected and how they fail: passwords, web flaws, authentication, the basics every defender needs.

4 open, 1 still locked

Threat watch

Questions drawn from real incidents and the techniques attackers are using right now.

3 open, 2 still locked

How you get in

  1. Sign up with your university email

    Use the address your university gave you, ending in .ac.ae, and choose a password.

  2. Open the link we send you

    We email a confirmation link to that inbox. It proves the address is really yours.

  3. Pick your player name

    This is the name everyone sees on the leaderboard. Your email stays private.

  4. Solve challenges as they unlock

    Each correct answer adds points. Ties go to whoever got there first.