Programming Contest Coming Soon, Cryptography/Steganography Cracking Contest Update

We are ironing out the final details on our 2011 Programming Contest. If you have any ideas that you think we should use, please contact me or leave a comment on this news post. We are planning to make the 2011 Programming Contest fairly open ended, but we could also make it challenge driven (plus story line) like the Cryptography/Steganography Cracking Contest. Speaking of the Cryptography/Steganography Cracking Contest, nobody has even completed Mission 1 yet. I have had serious submissions from twelve different people on Mission 1, but none of them were correct. Is anybody out there up to the challenge? If you know any ninjas, please tell them about our challenge. I didn't create it so that it could go unsolved...