JagWaRz / CIT 406 Challenge Development

JagWaRz is an educational gaming platform created at IUPUI. The goal of JagWaRz is to educate students by challenging them and rewarding them for completing security challenges; similar to challenge/reward systems found in video games. Our project focuses on creating challenges for JagWaRz and the course CIT 406 Advanced Network Security.

Update: We created challenges ranging from packet sniffing and crypto to reverse engineering and password cracking. We hope to add these challenges to JagWaRz to help students learn using real-world scenarios and feel a sense of accomplishment when they overcome them.

Project Students: Nicholas Luedeman, Rushabh Vyas

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