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   4 <span id="contest-archive"></span><h1 id="security-contest-archive"><span id="contest-archive"></span>Security Contest Archive</h1>
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   6 <ul class="small-gap">
   7 <li><a class="reference internal" href="#contest-overview" id="id2">Contest overview</a></li>
   8 <li><a class="reference internal" href="#contest-winners" id="id3">Contest winners</a></li>
   9 <li><p class="first"><a class="reference internal" href="#panel-of-judges" id="id4">Panel of judges</a></p>
  10 <ul class="small-gap">
  11 <li><a class="reference internal" href="#chair" id="id5">Chair</a></li>
  12 <li><a class="reference internal" href="#judges" id="id6">Judges</a></li>
  13 </ul>
  14 </li>
  15 <li><a class="reference internal" href="#additional-information" id="id7">Additional information</a></li>
  16 </ul>
  17
  18 </div><p>The Native Client team at Google has gone to exceptional measures to
  19 make Native Client a secure system, including holding a public
  20 security contest. This page archives information from that contest,
  21 including the list of contest winners and the lineup of security
  22 experts who served as judges.</p>
  23 <p>Although the security contest has ended, the Native Client team
  24 welcomes your continued involvement in the project. You can help by
  25 submitting bugs and participating in the Native Client discussion
  26 group.</p>
  27 <h2 id="contest-overview">Contest overview</h2>
  28 <p>The Native Client team held a contest in 2009 to test the security of
  29 Native Client and help make the system more secure. Participants were
  30 invited to discover security bugs in Native Client technology in order
  31 to compete for cash prizes.</p>
  32 <p>Here was the challenge put forth by the Native Client team:</p>
  33 <blockquote>
  34 <div>Do you think it is impossible to safely run untrusted x86 code on
  35 the web? Do you want a chance to impress a panel of some of the top
  36 security experts in the world? Then submit an exploit to the Native
  37 Client Security contest and you could also win cash prizes, not to
  38 mention bragging rights.</div></blockquote>
  39 <p>The contest judges evaluated exploits designed to defeat Native Client
  40 security measures based on severity, scope, reliability, and
  41 style. The winning teams and entries are listed below.</p>
  42 <h2 id="contest-winners"><span id="id1"></span>Contest winners</h2>
  43 <p>The Native Client team thanks everyone who participated in the contest
  44 for their contributions to improving the quality and security of the
  45 Native Client system. The judges reviewed the submitted exploits and
  46 identified the following teams as winners:</p>
  47 <table border="1" class="docutils">
  48 <colgroup>
  49 </colgroup>
  50 <tbody valign="top">
  51 <tr class="row-odd"><td><img alt="First place medal" class="first last" src="/native-client/images/medal-64_1st.png" />
  52 </td>
  53 <td><p class="first"><strong>Team</strong>: Beached As</p>
  54 <p><strong>Members</strong>: Mark Dowd, Ben Hawkes</p>
  55 <p><strong>Submitted issues</strong>: 50, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 62, 63</p>
  56 <p class="last">Mark Dowd and Ben Hawkes are application security specialists
  57 hailing from Australia and New Zealand, respectively. Mark
  58 works for IBM ISS X-Force R&amp;D, whereas Ben currently performs
  59 independent research while simultaneously pursuing a
  60 mathematics and computing science degree. Both have uncovered
  61 major security flaws in ubiquitous Internet software, in terms
  62 of both exploitable bugs and weaknesses in system protection
  63 mechanisms. Both have spoken at numerous security conferences
  64 in recent years, including BlackHat, Ruxcon, KiwiCon, and
  65 Cansec West.</p>
  66 </td>
  67 </tr>
  68 <tr class="row-even"><td><img alt="Second place medal" class="first last" src="/native-client/images/medal-64_2nd.png" />
  69 </td>
  70 <td><p class="first"><strong>Team</strong>: CJETM</p>
  71 <p><strong>Members</strong>: Jason Carpenter, Eric Monti, Chris Rohlf</p>
  72 <p><strong>Submitted issues</strong>: 42, 44, 49, 70</p>
  73 <p class="last">Team CJETM is comprised of security vulnerability researchers
  74 Chris Rohlf, Jason Carpenter and Eric Monti. All three have
  75 abused software professionally for a long time.</p>
  76 </td>
  77 </tr>
  78 <tr class="row-odd"><td><img alt="Third place medal" class="first last" src="/native-client/images/medal-64_3rd.png" />
  79 </td>
  80 <td><p class="first"><strong>Team</strong>: 0xdead</p>
  81 <p><strong>Members</strong>: Gabriel Campana</p>
  82 <p><strong>Submitted issues</strong>: 45</p>
  83 <p class="last">Gabriel Campana is a security researcher working at Sogeti ESEC
  84 R&amp;D labs. His research interests are mainly focused on
  85 vulnerability research, exploitation methods, and Linux kernel
  86 security. Lately he has been working on automated vulnerability
  87 research, especially fuzzing. In his spare time, he plays with
  88 embedded network devices.</p>
  89 </td>
  90 </tr>
  91 <tr class="row-even"><td><img alt="Fourth place medal" class="first" src="/native-client/images/medal-64_4th.png" />
  92 <p class="last">(tie)</p>
  93 </td>
  94 <td><p class="first"><strong>Team</strong>: teamfkmr</p>
  95 <p><strong>Members</strong>: Daiki Fukumori</p>
  96 <p><strong>Submitted issues</strong>: 66, 67</p>
  97 <p class="last">Daiki Fukumori is a web security researcher. He has given talks
  98 at POC Korea and AVTokyo on Web 2.0 Hacking, and he introduced
  99 Native Client security at Shibuya.pm. He currently has an
 100 interest in cloud security.</p>
 101 </td>
 102 </tr>
 103 <tr class="row-odd"><td><img alt="Fourth place medal" class="first" src="/native-client/images/medal-64_4th.png" />
 104 <p class="last">(tie)</p>
 105 </td>
 106 <td><p class="first"><strong>Team</strong>: Alex Rad</p>
 107 <p><strong>Members</strong>: Alex Radocea</p>
 108 <p><strong>Submitted issues</strong>: 81</p>
 109 <p class="last">Alex Radocea is a 20-year old student at Rensselaer Polytechnic
 110 Institute. In the realm of computer security he is really
 111 excited about proactively designed technology which can help
 112 wipe out entire bug classes. Currently he is helping improve
 113 Native Client through Google Summer of Code.</p>
 114 </td>
 115 </tr>
 116 </tbody>
 117 </table>
 118 <h2 id="panel-of-judges"><span id="contest-judges"></span>Panel of judges</h2>
 119 <p>Google recruited the following group of distinguished security experts
 120 to serve as judges for the Native Client security contest:</p>
 121 <h3 id="chair">Chair</h3>
 122 <table border="1" class="docutils">
 123 <colgroup>
 124 </colgroup>
 125 <tbody valign="top">
 126 <tr class="row-odd"><td>Edward Felten</td>
 127 </tr>
 128 <tr class="row-even"><td>Princeton University</td>
 129 </tr>
 130 <tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference external" href="http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~felten/">http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~felten/</a></td>
 131 </tr>
 132 </tbody>
 133 </table>
 134 <h3 id="judges">Judges</h3>
 135 <table border="1" class="docutils">
 136 <colgroup>
 137 </colgroup>
 138 <tbody valign="top">
 139 <tr class="row-odd"><td>Alex Halderman</td>
 140 <td>Niels Provos</td>
 141 <td>Bennet Yee</td>
 142 </tr>
 143 <tr class="row-even"><td>University of Michigan</td>
 144 <td>Google</td>
 145 <td>Google</td>
 146 </tr>
 147 <tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference external" href="http://www.cse.umich.edu/~jhalderm/">http://www.cse.umich.edu/~jhalderm/</a></td>
 148 <td><a class="reference external" href="http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/">http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/</a></td>
 149 <td><a class="reference external" href="http://www.bennetyee.org/">http://www.bennetyee.org/</a></td>
 150 </tr>
 151 <tr class="row-even"><td>Brad Karp</td>
 152 <td>Stefan Savage</td>
 153 <td>Nickolai Zeldovich</td>
 154 </tr>
 155 <tr class="row-odd"><td>University of College London</td>
 156 <td>University of California San Diego</td>
 157 <td>MIT</td>
 158 </tr>
 159 <tr class="row-even"><td><a class="reference external" href="http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/B.Karp/">http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/B.Karp/</a></td>
 160 <td><a class="reference external" href="http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/~savage">http://www.cs.ucsd.edu/~savage</a></td>
 161 <td><a class="reference external" href="http://people.csail.mit.edu/nickolai/">http://people.csail.mit.edu/nickolai/</a></td>
 162 </tr>
 163 <tr class="row-odd"><td>Greg Morrisett</td>
 164 <td>Dan Wallach</td>
 165 <td><div class="first last">&nbsp;</div></td>
 166 </tr>
 167 <tr class="row-even"><td>Harvard University</td>
 168 <td>Rice University</td>
 169 <td><div class="first last">&nbsp;</div></td>
 170 </tr>
 171 <tr class="row-odd"><td><a class="reference external" href="http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~greg/">http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~greg/</a></td>
 172 <td><a class="reference external" href="http://www.cs.rice.edu/~dwallach/">http://www.cs.rice.edu/~dwallach/</a></td>
 173 <td><div class="first last">&nbsp;</div></td>
 174 </tr>
 175 </tbody>
 176 </table>
 177 <h2 id="additional-information">Additional information</h2>
 178 <p>For additional information about the Native Client security contest,
 179 see the archived
 180 <a class="reference internal" href="/native-client/community/security-contest/contest-announcement.html"><em>Contest Announcement</em></a>,
 181 <a class="reference internal" href="/native-client/community/security-contest/contest-faq.html"><em>FAQ</em></a> and
 182 <a class="reference internal" href="/native-client/community/security-contest/contest-terms.html"><em>Terms &amp; Conditions</em></a>.</p>
 183 <p>If you&#8217;d like to get involved with Native Client, you can:</p>
 184 <ul class="small-gap">
 185 <li>Use the <a class="reference external" href="/native-client/sdk/download">Native Client SDK</a> to build Native
 186 Client web applications.</li>
 187 <li>Submit <a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/issues/list">bugs</a>
 188 and participate in the Native Client
 189 <a class="reference external" href="http://groups.google.com/group/native-client-discuss">discussion group</a>.</li>
 190 <li>Contribute to the
 191 <a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/">Native Client open-source project</a>.</li>
 192 </ul>
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