This is pure crazy talk -- I love it. Just enough coherence to follow the progression, but chaotic enough to give the feeling you experience when chasing difficult problems through the rabbit hole. Truly a brain dump, as close as one can perform. I bet it felt incredible not just to solve the challenge, but then to try to extract the event from an exhausted mind and write it all down. A tad bit envious if I don't mind saying so.

I agree, truly some of the thrill was conveyed through this post.

The organizers of the challenge seem delightfully evil and I imagine it is a blast to organize.

The Google Translate deciphering from latin was probably the most amusing part to me and no longer seems to work? https://translate.google.com/#la/en/lorem%20ip%0A%0ALorem%20...

It's defcon, I think they could've pulled in a favor from google.

I do wonder if that's the case.

There's also this [0] write up, if you're looking for a more straight-forward read.

[0] http://potatohatsecurity.tumblr.com/post/94565729529/defcon-...

> The first tidbit is “PERRIN” this is referencing Perrin numbers. I 100% confident that we are the only people to ever hit that wiki page, ever.

Almost: I was on that wiki page while waiting in line around 3 am Thursday morning (speakers got badges, etc. early, and a friend of a friend was a speaker). We just didn't have the time to stick with it.

I read it as "we" being everyone working on the badge problem instead of his group specifically

Awesome write up! I love the defcon badge challenges

Who is lost?

1o57 designs the DEFCON badges every year.