# CSAW quals 2023 post

i played CSAW quals this past weekend

there were some good parts and some bad parts. overall i think CSAW has needed a lot more QC in the
2 years that i've been playing it

anyway, given that there are official writeups (looking at them, the quality varies greatly by
challenge author, but y'know whatever) i'm going to limit this to two of the challenges i thought
were actually good and we can solve them dragon style :)

writeup index:
- [crypto: blocky noncense](#copying-and-pasting-code-you-don-t-entirely-understand-for-fun-and-profit-blocky-noncense)
- [crypto: mental poker](#poker-i-barely-even-mental-poker)
