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Ozone Widget Framework developed by the NSA

54 points by lee337 14y ago

wheaties 14y ago
It's great that this was open sourced. Quite impressive what you've accomplished. For me to use it I'd also have to pay ExtJS $2500 and/or some combination of a fixed fee with royalty rights which I just can not do.
- neurotech1 14y ago
  That hopefully will change. "At the Dec 2012 OWF GOSS board, the board agreed to a 6-month re-factoring effort which would re-implement using OSGi on the back end and eliminate the dependency on ExtJS for the front-end. This work will be done on GitHub and will be completely transparent to the community."
JPKab 14y ago
My buddy has been raving about this for years. He uses it extensively for geospatial stuff for the Intel community. I'm stoked to finally get a hold of it.
- DennisP 14y ago
  What has he said about it?
marshray 14y ago
I assume this is for testing purposes only: https://github.com/ozoneplatform/owf/blob/master/certs/ca.key https://github.com/ozoneplatform/owf/blob/master/certs/ca.ke... :-)
- ihsw 14y ago
  Indeed. https://github.com/ozoneplatform/owf/blob/master/certs/cakey.pem https://github.com/ozoneplatform/owf/blob/master/certs/cakey... Caveat: While browsing repositories you can press 't' and fuzzy-search filenames.
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csmatt 14y ago
Looks like the project is specifically mentioned in the ndaa. That's enough to peak my interest.
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mef 14y ago
For those curious about the role the NSA played in this framework: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/?&sid=cp112TtjuH&r_n=sr026.112&dbname=cp112&&sel=TOC_618908&#38 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/?&sid=cp112TtjuH&#...;
- druiid 14y ago
  Thanks. I was reading through the github readme going 'Well, that's cool... but why did they build this?'. Seemed to me before understanding why they needed it/built it, that it would have been time better spent working on a new crypto engine :).
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blaenk 14y ago
Check out their website as well (which is buried in the project's readme): http://owfgoss.org/ http://owfgoss.org/
fintler 14y ago
When I was working with this (2+ years ago), it was mostly for integration with databases in DIA's GCCS-J program. Honestly, for the amount of data they need to deal with, it just didn't work (common operational picture stuff).
cliveb 14y ago
Curious any OWF developers have a connector they can release to use NSA developed Accumulo NoSQL? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Accumulo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Accumulo

54 points by lee337 14y ago

It's great that this was open sourced. Quite impressive what you've accomplished. For me to use it I'd also have to pay ExtJS $2500 and/or some combination of a fixed fee with royalty rights which I just can not do.

neurotech1 14y ago
That hopefully will change. "At the Dec 2012 OWF GOSS board, the board agreed to a 6-month re-factoring effort which would re-implement using OSGi on the back end and eliminate the dependency on ExtJS for the front-end. This work will be done on GitHub and will be completely transparent to the community."

JPKab 14y ago

My buddy has been raving about this for years. He uses it extensively for geospatial stuff for the Intel community. I'm stoked to finally get a hold of it.

DennisP 14y ago
What has he said about it?

marshray 14y ago

I assume this is for testing purposes only: https://github.com/ozoneplatform/owf/blob/master/certs/ca.key https://github.com/ozoneplatform/owf/blob/master/certs/ca.ke... :-)

ihsw 14y ago
Indeed. https://github.com/ozoneplatform/owf/blob/master/certs/cakey.pem https://github.com/ozoneplatform/owf/blob/master/certs/cakey... Caveat: While browsing repositories you can press 't' and fuzzy-search filenames.

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csmatt 14y ago

Looks like the project is specifically mentioned in the ndaa. That's enough to peak my interest.

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mef 14y ago

For those curious about the role the NSA played in this framework: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/?&sid=cp112TtjuH&r_n=sr026.112&dbname=cp112&&sel=TOC_618908&#38 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/?&sid=cp112TtjuH&#...;

druiid 14y ago
Thanks. I was reading through the github readme going 'Well, that's cool... but why did they build this?'. Seemed to me before understanding why they needed it/built it, that it would have been time better spent working on a new crypto engine :).

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blaenk 14y ago

Check out their website as well (which is buried in the project's readme): http://owfgoss.org/ http://owfgoss.org/

fintler 14y ago

When I was working with this (2+ years ago), it was mostly for integration with databases in DIA's GCCS-J program. Honestly, for the amount of data they need to deal with, it just didn't work (common operational picture stuff).

cliveb 14y ago

Curious any OWF developers have a connector they can release to use NSA developed Accumulo NoSQL? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Accumulo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Accumulo