Issue dossier
The strongest surviving public technical sources are post-event challenge writeups that contain flag-recovery detail rather than neutral hardware documentation.
A linkable camp-impact record with badge context, severity, evidence confidence, and source notes.
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challenge-spoiler source caveat · source-backed · documented caveat
The catalogue uses them to prove badge behavior and firmware surfaces while avoiding full solution reproduction in the main badge summary.
- Badge
- Ruxcon 2017 HHV Badge
- Category
- challenge-spoiler source caveat
- Severity
- note
- Confidence
- source-backed
- Status
- documented caveat
- Timeframe
- post-event 2017 writeups
- Source note
- Darkglade Ruxcon 2017 HHV Badge Flag Part 1 and Part 2 writeups.
challenge writeup
Darkglade writeup documenting UART access, boot output, EasyFlag discovery, per-badge data, and NodeMCU/ESP8266 badge context.
Badge: Ruxcon 2017 HHV Badge
challenge writeup
Darkglade writeup documenting the harder badge flag, crypto/AES behavior, firmware inspection, and Lua/NodeMCU bytecode path.
Badge: Ruxcon 2017 HHV Badge
event page
Official Ruxcon source for the 2017 Melbourne security-conference context and Aus-Pacific framing.
Badge: Ruxcon 2017 HHV Badge
event schedule
Official events schedule documenting the October 21-22, 2017 programme and Hardware Hacking Village activity context.
Badge: Ruxcon 2017 HHV Badge
firmware source
Public repository preserving the Ruxcon 2017 HHV badge firmware source referenced by the source-release post.
Badge: Ruxcon 2017 HHV Badge
official village page
Official HHV source naming the Ruxcon 2017 HHV Badge session and listing assembled badge plus 3.3V USB-UART adapter requirements.
Badge: Ruxcon 2017 HHV Badge
source release note
Post-event source-release note documenting that the 2016 and 2017 Ruxcon HHV badge code was published on GitHub.
Badge: Ruxcon 2017 HHV Badge
village writeup
Darkglade post-event wrap documenting badge-kit demand, the Ruxcon 2017 HHV page, non-public Gerber rationale, and source-material follow-up context.
Badge: Ruxcon 2017 HHV Badge
Darkglade · retrieved 2026-05-15
Source-release post linking the public Ruxcon 2017 HHV badge repository and preserving post-event firmware availability context.
Badge: Ruxcon 2017 HHV Badge
Darkglade · retrieved 2026-05-15
First-hand challenge writeup source for UART/boot-output behavior, EasyFlag path, per-badge data, and NodeMCU/ESP8266 badge context.
Badge: Ruxcon 2017 HHV Badge
Darkglade · retrieved 2026-05-15
First-hand challenge writeup source for crypto-module/AES behavior, Lua bytecode inspection, and harder flag path.
Badge: Ruxcon 2017 HHV Badge
Darkglade · retrieved 2026-05-15
Post-event source for badge-kit demand, public-material follow-up, and the explicit note that badge Gerbers were not published because of the commissioned limited-run artwork.
Badge: Ruxcon 2017 HHV Badge
GitHub · retrieved 2026-05-15
Public firmware repository for the Ruxcon 2017 HHV badge source referenced by the Darkglade release post.
Badge: Ruxcon 2017 HHV Badge
Ruxcon · retrieved 2026-05-15
Official schedule source for the October 21-22, 2017 programme and Hardware Hacking Village placement.
Badge: Ruxcon 2017 HHV Badge
Ruxcon · retrieved 2026-05-15
Official source for the Ruxcon 2017 HHV Badge session and required assembled badge plus 3.3V USB-UART adapter.
Badge: Ruxcon 2017 HHV Badge
Ruxcon · retrieved 2026-05-15
Official source for Ruxcon 2017 security-conference and Melbourne/Aus-Pacific context.
Badge: Ruxcon 2017 HHV Badge