# ctf-wiki **Repository Path**: github-source/ctf-wiki ## Basic Information - **Project Name**: ctf-wiki - **Description**: No description available - **Primary Language**: Unknown - **License**: Not specified - **Default Branch**: master - **Homepage**: None - **GVP Project**: No ## Statistics - **Stars**: 1 - **Forks**: 0 - **Created**: 2024-09-12 - **Last Updated**: 2025-02-06 ## Categories & Tags **Categories**: Uncategorized **Tags**: None ## README # CTF Wiki [![Discord](https://dcbadge.vercel.app/api/server/ekv7WDa9pq)](https://discord.gg/ekv7WDa9pq) [中文](./README-zh_CN.md) [English](./README.md) Welcome to **CTF Wiki**！ **CTF** (Capture The Flag) started from **DEFCON CTF**, a competitive game among computer security enthusiasts, originally hosted in 1996. **CTF** covers a wide range of fields. Along with the evolving security technology, the difficulty of **CTF** challenges is getting harder and harder. As a result, the learning curve for beginners is getting steeper. Most online information is scattered and trivial. Beginners often don't know how to systematically learn **CTF**, which requires a lot of work and effort. In order to let those people who are interested in **CTF**s start easily, in October 2016, **CTF Wiki** was established on Github. Along with gradually improved content over time, **CTF Wiki** has received lots of appreciation from security enthusiasts, many of those are guys that we think we would never meet. As a freedom site, primarily focusing on recent CTFs, **CTF Wiki** introduces the knowledge and techniques in all aspects of **CTF** to make it easier for beginners to learn **CTF**. Now, **CTF Wiki** mainly contains the basic skills for **CTF**, but we are working hard to improve the following contents. - Advanced skills used in CTF - Special topics appearing in CTF For the above-mentioned parts to be improved, please refer to [Projects](https://github.com/ctf-wiki/ctf-wiki/projects) which details what are planned. Although now **CTF Wiki** mainly focus **CTF**, it is not strictly limited to **CTF** topics. In the future, **CTF Wiki** will include - Tools used in security research - Increased discussion of security in the world In addition, given the following two points - Information about technology should be openly shared. - As new techniques are always being developed, old techniques will start to fade over time and they should be replaced with new techniques. Therefore, **CTF Wiki** will never publish books. Finally, originating from the community, as an independent organization, **CTF Wiki** advocates **freedom of knowledge**, will **never be commercialized**, and will always maintain the character of **independence and freedom**. ## How to build？ CTF Wiki uses [mkdocs](https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs) to show its contents. And it is deployed at [https://ctf-wiki.org](https://ctf-wiki.org). It can also be deployed locally, with the following steps: ```shell # 1. clone git clone https://github.com/ctf-wiki/ctf-wiki.git # 2. requirements pip install -r requirements.txt # generate static file in site/ python3 scripts/docs.py build-all # deploy at http://127.0.0.1:8008 python3 scripts/docs.py serve ``` **A local instance of mkdocs is dynamically updated, for instance when a markdown file is modified, the corresponding page will be modified too.** If you just want to view it statically, try Docker! ``` docker run -d --name=ctf-wiki -p 4100:80 ctfwiki/ctf-wiki ``` And then access [http://localhost:4100/](http://localhost:4100/) . ## How to practice？ Firstly, learn some basic security knowledge through online reading. Secondly, CTF Wiki has two sister projects. - All of the challenges that are mentioned are in the [ctf-challenges](https://github.com/ctf-wiki/ctf-challenges) repository, you can locate them with their corresponding category. - The tools mentioned in the CTF Wiki are constantly added to the [ctf-tools](https://github.com/ctf-wiki/ctf-tools) repository. ## How to make CTF Wiki Better？ We welcome to write content for the wiki and share what you have learned. **Before you decide to contribute content, please read [CONTRIBUTING](https://ctf-wiki.org/en/contribute/before-contributing/)**. Thank you to all the people who have already contributed to CTF Wiki. ## What can you get? - Ability to learn new things quickly - Different ways of thinking - A love for solving problems - Interesting security techniques - Memorable and enriching experience Before reading the Wiki, we hope to give you some advice: - Learn to ask [smart-questions](http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html) . - Learn to use Google Search for self-improvement. - Be good at least one programming language, such as Python. - Practice is the most important learning tool. - Maintain the passions and desire to learn about new techniques. The security circle is small and the areas of exploration is vast. Let's get started with **CTF Wiki**!