Rodan

A highly optimized CTF platform backend written in Go

Warning

This project is currently under active development and does not have a stable release. Use it at your own discretion.

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Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Requirements
• To-Do

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Introduction

HackVault aims to be a highly efficient backend for CTF (Capture The Flag) platforms, with performance and scalability in mind. The project is being developed using Go (Golang) for its concurrency model and lightweight footprint.

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Requirements

• Docker
  Please refer to the official Docker installation documentation for setup instructions.

Why Docker?
Some of the services in this project are tightly coupled. The recommended way to run everything is via Docker Compose, which ensures proper coordination between services.

If you prefer running services individually on your local environment, be aware that some components might break or not function as expected without the full stack.

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To-Do

• A lot
• connect docker API
• correct and optimise all the request and response json
• add a query and response summary for all endpoints, some kind of swagger docs or just a routes.md
• implement leaderboard sort from backend
• implement cache
• add forgot password for user
• change the code change for team logic
• add the points function (dynamic)
• implement notifications (SSE)
• admin panel (admin & sudo admin)
• add text files checking if things go kaboom

Libraries Used

This project makes use of external libraries, with additional functionality built on top where needed. We’d like to acknowledge and thank the following:

• redis-cache
• go-tinylfu