Opening of the 7th Vietnam Cryptography Technical Competition

On the morning of August 16, in Phu Tho, the Government Cipher Committee solemnly held the opening ceremony of the 7th Vietnam Cryptography Technical Competition in 2025. Major General Nguyen Huu Hung, Deputy Head of the Government Cipher Committee and Head of the Organizing Committee attended and directed the ceremony.

Scene of the opening ceremony of the contest.

Also attending were Major General Ho Van Huong, Deputy Head of the Government Cipher Committee; representatives of leaders of the cipher systems: Army, Police, Foreign Affairs ; representatives of leaders of agencies and units under the Government Cipher Committee and comrades in the Jury and the Athletes' Delegation.

The contest took place in an atmosphere of the entire cryptography industry excitedly competing to achieve achievements to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the successful August Revolution (August 19, 1945 - August 19, 2025) and National Day September 2; 80th anniversary of the traditional day of the Vietnamese cryptography industry (September 12, 1945 - September 12, 2025) and receive the title of Hero of the People's Armed Forces; especially to congratulate the success of the 11th Congress of the Party Committee of the Government Cryptography Department, term 2025-2030.

Major General Nguyen Huu Hung, Deputy Head of the Government Cipher Committee, delivered the opening speech of the contest.

In his opening speech, Major General Nguyen Huu Hung, Deputy Head of the Government Cipher Committee and Head of the Organizing Committee of the contest, said: This is an important milestone to accurately and objectively assess the comprehensive learning and training process of each unit and individual in the entire industry.

The contest is not only a professional activity held every 5 years under unified direction on a large scale throughout the industry, but also a forum for exchange, learning, and sharing experiences; it is the basis for proposing appropriate policies and solutions to improve the effectiveness of cryptographic technical work and planning a team of qualified staff in the coming time.

Athletes from 10 teams, representing thousands of key officers and employees in the industry from all over the country.

According to the Organizing Committee, the new point of this competition is the addition of the "technical assurance" subject - the force directly deploying and handling technical situations arising in practice, demonstrating the "timeliness" in organizing training to meet practical requirements, especially in the conditions of increasingly modern and diverse information technology infrastructure and cryptographic products.

The athletes participating in the competition are the best representatives selected through competitions of the key organizations of the Army, Police, Diplomacy, Party-Government and Cryptography Academy, representing thousands of key officers and employees in the entire industry from all over the country.

Delegates take souvenir photos.

The competition takes place over three days (from August 16 to 18), with 60 athletes from 10 teams competing in two theoretical and practical parts.

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