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Are the tasks progressively more difficult?

The CTF Time listing for it indicates that it is "Jeopardy" format, which I assume means categories with increasing value/difficulty. It also lists the competition as being open for 24 hours.

https://ctftime.org/event/806

Thank you, I got a similar answer over on IRC. I know jeopardy but just the main idea so I could not deduce that :p

> CryptoCTF is starting tomorrow, August 10th, at 06:00 EDT.

Kind of poor timing…

What is a CTF?

The CryptoCTF FAQ page has a link to this site[0], which helps explain what a CTF is.

[0]: https://ctftime.org/ctf-wtf/

A "Capture the Flag" game. A style of digital security simulation game thing.