CSC3050 Fall 2024 Project2: Defusing a Binary Bomb

Java Python CSC3050 Fall 2024

Project2: Defusing a Binary Bomb

Assigned: Oct. 8th, Due: 23:59 Monday Oct. 21

1 Introduction

The nefarious Dr. Evil has planted a slew of “binary bombs” on our class machines.  A binary bomb is a program that consists of a sequence of phases. Each phase expects you to type a particular string on stdin. If you type the correct string, then the phase is defused and the bomb proceeds to the next phase. Otherwise, the bomb explodes by printing "BOOM!!!" and then terminating. The bomb is defused when every phase has been defused.

There are too many bombs for us to deal with, so we are giving each student a bomb to defuse.  Your mission, which you have no choice but to accept, is to defuse your bomb before the due date.  Good luck, and welcome to the bomb squad!

Step 1: Get Your Bomb

You can obtain your bomb by pointing your Web browser at:

http://proj2.eastasia.cloudapp.azure.com/

This will display a binary bomb request form. for you to fill in. Enter your user name and email address and hit the Submit button.  The server will build your bomb and return it to your browser in a tar file called bombk .tar, where k is the unique number of your bomb.

The bomb will be run in the provided QEMU environment in the form. of a Docker contai