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In 2020, I solved a gnarly reverse engineering challenge in PlaidCTF. Only 9 teams solved. It's a huge pile of Typescript. Everything is named after a fish. The catch? There's no code, only types. How do they perform computation using just the type system? (Spoiler: Circuits!)

Apr 2, 2025, 8:50 PM

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