NSA Codebreaker Challenge 2024

The NSA Codebreaker Challenge was created in 2013 and provides U.S based academic institutions exposure to unclassified problems that simulate the work performed at NSA. The challenge provides a realistic, NSA-centered scenario that inspires students to expand and demonstrate their technical abilities through tasks that require a mix of software reverse engineering, vulnerability analysis, exploitation development, and network analysis. Through the Codebreaker Challenge, we are able to build academic partnerships and talent communities, influence academic curriculum, raise awareness of NSA mission, instill trust and confidence in the Agency, and promote career opportunities. 5,000 students from 450 schools across the country participated in last year’s challenge and we hope this year’s challenge will be just as successful.The NSA Codebreaker webpage contains stats from previous challenge years so you can see if your school participated and how they did: https://nsa-codebreaker.org/home