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> https://github.com/apache/incubator-pirk
> Employing homomorphic encryption techniques, PIR enables datasets to remain resident in their native locations while giving the ability to query the datasets with sensitive terms.
I can imagine a few scenarios there. One perhaps is when db admin should not find out what someone, possibly working on a classified project is querying.
Or say one compartment / project collected the data and now they want to share it with another project. Those read into the second project don't want to reveal to the first one what they are querying because it would reveal classified information.
Another scenario is a database which has results of possibly illegally intercepted communications. If the NSA can argue that the Constitutionally defined "search" doesn't occur until someone actually performs a search (as in runs an SQL query over the data). Then having PIR capability means being able to break the law but only let as few people as possible do it.
Also https://github.com/redhawksdr is pretty damn impressive. It looks like a complete parallel implementation of GNU Radio. Completed with an IDE and such. Wonder how it compares?
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OWF came up in a meeting recently -- may not be as awesome as NSA wants you to believe.
Can you share any other info?
Once comment described it as a "shit show".
Apparently its terrible and they tried to get the company to rebuild it and they made it the same.
Another comment comment on how "buggy" it was.
Or that the only dev that willing to work with it are contractors that want money.
I see the PR department is getting smarter...
There's a lot of neat things there. (This one looks interesting: https://iadgov.github.io/goSecure/ ) Also interesting is splitting the repos: that the NSA and IAD have different repos, and that one seems focused on defensive tech while the other is publishing analysis tools. I know there's a lot of people who aren't fans of the NSA (or what they do), but I think most of us can see a need for a military-grade organiz…
They are criminals and should be disbanded. The US intel community is full of cheats and liars, straight to the top.
I suspect there are a lot of very incredible computer programmers at the NSA and they're probably using just regular open source non security related tools every day. It's good to see that they're contributing back to the OS community what they can.
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