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 ## First Article

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+title = "CTF Write Up: Evolution Edition"
+date = 2025-09-27
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+
+I am choosing to make/post this write-up first because I am particularly fond of the question.
+Not often do you see evolutionary biology appear in a cybersecurity competition but here it is.
+
+## The Problem
+
+Here you must submit a json file containing a floating point array that represents 100 genomes.
+The server scores this genome and if you get the right one within some tolerance you get the flag.
+Our team was one of this first to get this problem done, it may not have been immediately obvious to others.
+
+### Evolutionary Algorithm
+
+Nature's way of optimizing a space characterized by trillions of variables to an unknowable objective function.
+You should consider it impressive, you are a result of this method of optimization.
+I implemented it in the following way: select the top ten genomes, duplicate them 10 times with random variation and
+resubmit the new 100 genomes to the server.
+
+## Code
+```python
+#!/bin/python
+import json
+import random
+import subprocess
+import numpy as np
+
+def generate_samples(num_samples=100, array_length=10):
+    data = {
+        "samples": [
+            [random.random() for _ in range(array_length)]
+            for _ in range(num_samples)
+        ]
+    }
+    return data
+
+def get_genetic_fitness(strains):
+    result = subprocess.run(
+        ["nc","chal.sunshinectf.games","25201"], 
+        input=strains.encode(),
+        capture_output=True
+    )
+    out_text = result.stdout.decode()
+    print(out_text)
+    #out_text= string
+    lines = out_text.splitlines()
+    fitness = "\n".join(lines[7:])
+    return json.loads(fitness)
+
+def get_studs(fitness,samples):
+    indices = np.argsort(fitness["scores"])[-10:]
+    genomes = []
+    for i in indices:
+        genomes.append(samples["samples"][i])
+    return genomes
+
+def generate_new_samples(genomes, repetitions=10, mutation_rate=0.1):
+    sample_array = []
+    for genome in genomes:
+        for _ in range(repetitions):
+            sample_array.append([i+random.uniform(-mutation_rate, mutation_rate) for i in genome])
+    data = {
+        "samples": sample_array
+    }
+    return data
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    taumaeba_strains = generate_samples()
+    while True:
+        genetic_fitness = get_genetic_fitness(json.dumps(taumaeba_strains))
+        elite_genomes = get_studs(genetic_fitness,taumaeba_strains)
+        taumaeba_strains = generate_new_samples(elite_genomes)
+    #json.dumps(samples)
+```
+
+

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+title = "Drawn Image #1"
+date = 2025-02-23
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+
+![Image 1](/sketch_7.png)
+
+## The Process
+This is one of the first images I drew where I rendered the image in the style of the painter.
+The flesh of the creature was satisfactory to my standards the large sphere of tungsten however was not.
+Reflections are hard to get right in the endevours of graphical engineering and art but yield great improvements in realism.
+The creature itself was inspired from the stone scholar character from the artbook _Vermis_.
+
+## The Lore
+This is a mascot that promotes the consumption of dietary tungsten, deficiency of which
+causes the disease _Ligma_.
+He has features designed to appeal to the discerning youth of the world.
+The body is being crushed by a tungsten sphere which evokes the "Drop a Large Block of Ice on your Head"
+challenge that was popular on _Vine_ back in 2016.
+The skin is colored to represent the creatures blood being replaced with microplastic laden water, relating to those who inhaled large quantities of microplastics from disposable vapes.
+The bowed legs and unflattering physique of the creature challenges beauty norms by making everyone else attractive in comparison.

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