Assalam Alikum, Since I’ve changed my roadmap and altered somethings in it to fit more CTF styled learning, I’ve noticed that I get more time for solving CTF problems and making their writeups, which made my progress more visible.

I started RFC9293, just for the sake of implementing my own iteration of the TCP protocol in Python, which I thought I’d start with from the get go , but I realized quickly that this massive project should be done once I’ve completely got all the knowledge about the ins and outs of the TCP protocol. My iteration wont’ be a 100 percent identical but it’ll be abundant in features to be a Valid clone.

I’ve halted THM training for now because I continued the Networking book for which I’ve completed 60 percent of it’s first chapter. I believe in 2 months I’ll finish it and move to Offsec Pen Testing Guides. I’ll post AOC writeup in the coming Cybersec blog. I finished CTFTime’s guide, which was simple.

As I’m moving towards more advanced CTF problems, I’m finding it more motivating to get to the end, just because of how It feels after finishing something challenging and knowing that if time comes and I have to recreate the solution , It’ll be more efficient. I plan on ( after I create the VM and TCP projects after my exams end on 20th, I’ll also implement LFS in the 2 weeks I get in the semester break ). Doing the level 2 and 3 VMs and Challenges once I’m done with the semester break. Life is going good, Alhamdulillah, I believe once you get mental clarity and the vision of what you can achieve , there’s nothing that can distract you from your path, for if one has any kind of distraction and he succumbs to it, it’s either

  • The Goal isn’t Achievable in his mind
  • He doesn’t believe it’s worth sacrificing the short term pleasure of the said distraction for the greater glory and goal that he’s working on

What is resounding about this process is that my social interaction besides the people that are actually important has been cut off by 99 percent, My whole day is a boring , repetitive and mundane process my body has to go through . But I never get bored although someone looking at me might think such a way, but I believe my mental exercise and brainwashing that I implemented in the first few weeks of starting out , actually worked. I Romanticized the idea of following this path and learning every day and making it my sole purpose to achieve the GOALs I’ve set for myself. Now when I boot up my laptop , it’s a feeling of guilt , that for many people it’s a pain to get themselves started while I feel genuine happiness knowing that many hours of work awaits me.

FiamanAllah.