1{{+bindTo:partials.standard_nacl_article}} 2 3<section id="security-contest-archive"> 4<span id="contest-archive"></span><h1 id="security-contest-archive"><span id="contest-archive"></span>Security Contest Archive</h1> 5<div class="contents local" id="contents" style="display: none"> 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 19make Native Client a secure system, including holding a public 20security contest. This page archives information from that contest, 21including the list of contest winners and the lineup of security 22experts who served as judges.</p> 23<p>Although the security contest has ended, the Native Client team 24welcomes your continued involvement in the project. You can help by 25submitting bugs and participating in the Native Client discussion 26group.</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 29Native Client and help make the system more secure. Participants were 30invited to discover security bugs in Native Client technology in order 31to 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 35the web? Do you want a chance to impress a panel of some of the top 36security experts in the world? Then submit an exploit to the Native 37Client Security contest and you could also win cash prizes, not to 38mention bragging rights.</div></blockquote> 39<p>The contest judges evaluated exploits designed to defeat Native Client 40security measures based on severity, scope, reliability, and 41style. 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 44for their contributions to improving the quality and security of the 45Native Client system. The judges reviewed the submitted exploits and 46identified 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 57hailing from Australia and New Zealand, respectively. Mark 58works for IBM ISS X-Force R&D, whereas Ben currently performs 59independent research while simultaneously pursuing a 60mathematics and computing science degree. Both have uncovered 61major security flaws in ubiquitous Internet software, in terms 62of both exploitable bugs and weaknesses in system protection 63mechanisms. Both have spoken at numerous security conferences 64in recent years, including BlackHat, Ruxcon, KiwiCon, and 65Cansec 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 74Chris Rohlf, Jason Carpenter and Eric Monti. All three have 75abused 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 84R&D labs. His research interests are mainly focused on 85vulnerability research, exploitation methods, and Linux kernel 86security. Lately he has been working on automated vulnerability 87research, especially fuzzing. In his spare time, he plays with 88embedded 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 98at POC Korea and AVTokyo on Web 2.0 Hacking, and he introduced 99Native Client security at Shibuya.pm. He currently has an 100interest 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 110Institute. In the realm of computer security he is really 111excited about proactively designed technology which can help 112wipe out entire bug classes. Currently he is helping improve 113Native 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 120to 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"> </div></td> 166</tr> 167<tr class="row-even"><td>Harvard University</td> 168<td>Rice University</td> 169<td><div class="first last"> </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"> </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, 179see 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 & Conditions</em></a>.</p> 183<p>If you’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 186Client web applications.</li> 187<li>Submit <a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/issues/list">bugs</a> 188and 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> 193</section> 194 195{{/partials.standard_nacl_article}} 196
