Such Confuse: HackMIT 2015 Puzzle Guide

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A walkthrough of the final two parts of HackMIT's 2015 puzzle. The Maze challenge involved navigating a hidden maze via URL manipulation, with hints scattered throughout solvable via depth-first search in Python. The Stronghold challenge was a crackme requiring reverse engineering a Node.js password validator with checksum constraints — solvable via linear algebra, optimized brute force, or an SMT solver like Z3. Solutions and source code are provided for both parts.

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