Welcome to Roots & Routes, a unique Capture The Flag (CTF) challenge where the deep "Roots" of our identity meet the modern "Routes" of digital communication. This event is designed to test your technical limits while honoring our cultural heritage through creative puzzles. Prepare to navigate through six core domains: Cryptography (Roots of Language): Decode the unseen. From ancient ciphers reflecting our linguistic history to modern mathematical encryption, prove your ability to unlock secrets. Web Exploitation (Navigating Routes): The digital world is full of pathways. Find the hidden vulnerabilities in web applications, bypass security filters, and conquer the server. Network Security (Traffic Flow): Sniff the wire and analyze traffic streams. Trace the packets across complex "Routes" to intercept sensitive data and uncover the flag. Digital Forensics (Echoes in the Machine): Data never truly disappears — it only hides. Carve evidence from corrupted archives, recover fragments from unallocated space, chase timestamps through half-erased logs, and stitch fragmented captures back into one coherent story. The record is always there; the only question is who reads it first. OSINT (Digital Footprints): The internet is a vast landscape of scattered information. Follow the public trails across various platforms, gather open-source intelligence, and piece together the puzzle to reveal hidden truths. AI / ML Security (The Digital Mind): Behind every intelligent interface lies a labyrinth of prompts, tokens, and hidden instructions. In this domain, you won't just break code, you'll converse with it. Exploit the very models designed to assist, jailbreak the obedient, and uncover secrets buried in system prompts. The machine speaks, but is it telling the truth?