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Re: NSA OSS Technologies

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Post by hueving » Mon, Jun 19, 2017, 5:49 AM UTC

Violating the sanctity of the captive portal license agreement! https://github.com/iadgov/goSecure/blob/master/scripts/wifi_...

:)

Re: NSA OSS Technologies

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Post by jamra » Mon, Jun 19, 2017, 5:50 AM UTC

rdtsc wrote: post #12

This caught my eye: > 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 compartmen…

All valid points, but I think it has more to do with this research being popular in the encryption community. One of the Coursera teachers was working on something like that.

An example of use is video games that help prevent hacking and modification.

I think that there could be some great consumer usage for having the ability to encrypt data, but still be able to search it.

Re: NSA OSS Technologies

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 19, 2017, 6:08 AM UTC

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Re: NSA OSS Technologies

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Post by miclill_kit » Mon, Jun 19, 2017, 6:38 AM UTC

deepnotderp wrote: post #2

I see the PR department is getting smarter...

That was exactly my thought as well.

Re: NSA OSS Technologies

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Post by aramas » Mon, Jun 19, 2017, 6:43 AM UTC

It's generous to have all in royalty free license.

Re: NSA OSS Technologies

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Post by alpb » Mon, Jun 19, 2017, 6:47 AM UTC

SomeStupidPoint wrote: post #9

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…

I wonder why https://www.iad.gov (linked at https://github.com/iadgov) is not using a TLS certificate trusted in normal browsers. I cannot visit the webpage as it uses DoD Root CA, which is not installed on my computer.

Re: NSA OSS Technologies

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Post by mtgx » Mon, Jun 19, 2017, 6:48 AM UTC

deepnotderp wrote: post #2

I see the PR department is getting smarter...

Federal government is required to open source at least 20 percent of its code now:

https://sourcecode.cio.gov/

Re: NSA OSS Technologies

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Post by alltakendamned » Mon, Jun 19, 2017, 6:49 AM UTC

microwavecamera wrote: post #15

It's nice to see a push for open security and solutions rather than secretive offensive counter-security. Thanks. :)

One does not exclude the other though

Re: NSA OSS Technologies

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Post by pvorb » Mon, Jun 19, 2017, 6:53 AM UTC

aramas wrote: post #25

It's generous to have all in royalty free license.

Why should it be generous? It's been paid through taxes.

Re: NSA OSS Technologies

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Post by qeternity » Mon, Jun 19, 2017, 7:00 AM UTC

mtgx wrote: post #27

deepnotderp wrote: post #2

I see the PR department is getting smarter...

Federal government is required to open source at least 20 percent of its code now: https://sourcecode.cio.gov/

The cynic in me wonders which 20% we'll get. The repo linked here is pretty impressive, so I may have to eat crow. I would have expected to get every html template and vba macro ever written, instead of the value add stuff.