The folks at nCircle Blog have posted a VERT Challenge, and hopefully more to come. You can check out the details at their blog, but I’ll be posting my progress here and we’ll see how far I can get before I either a.) give up, or b.) someone else gets it, or c.) hopefully win!

Anyways the requirements are as so:

  • Locate the WinNY application Online (Both Versions 1 and 2)
  • Determine how to perform proper WinNY detection. (remotely — via the listening TCP port)

What you need to provide in order to win:

  • Any encryption, authentication or hashing used for communication.
  • A breakdown of the information provided by WinNY when you connect to it.
  • The unencrypted strings that distinquish between WinNY 1 and WinNY 2.
  • Bonus Points for providing a script or source code to perform the detection.

I have located both versions 1 and 2 of the the p2p software… I’ll begin working on identifying them on the network soon. Stay tuned for further progress and good luck to anyone else participating.