The Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)
The DPDK is a set of software libraries to enable packet processing. It
consists of a set of polling mode drivers (PMD) which can be used to pull
network packets directly from a Network Interface Card (NIC), as well as
other libraries to assist in the processing of those packets. The additional
libraries include ones for:
* memory and buffer management
* packet classification
* software rings or FIFOs to allow packet transfer between cores
amongst others.
Applications written using the DPDK run in userspace. The devices used by a
DPDK application are removed from kernel control and are instead managed
directly by that application.
GTAMS Analyzer is a complete coding and analysis package. It is a "port" of
TAMS Analyzer for Macintosh OS X. Note, at some point the two projects will
have identical file formats, at which point the initial G (for GNUstep)
will be dropped. GTAMS stands for GNUstep Text Analysis Markup System, it
is a convention for identifying themes in text. The software offers a wide
range of tools for applying themes to texts and identifying patterns of
themes within and between texts.
LICENSE: GPL2
The GNOME Password Manager - GPass for short - is a simple
application, written for the GNOME 2 desktop, that lets you manage a
collection of passwords. The password collection is stored in an
encrypted file, protected by a master-password.
GPass is released under the GNU GPL2 licence.
Features:
* Clean and easy-to-use user interface.
* Quick-search facility.
* Username and password may easily be copied to the clipboard.
* Encryption is done using the OpenSSL cryptographics library.
* The built-in password generator helps you generate secure passwords.
* You can launch a website and the associated username/passwords
direct from GPass
Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on a time-memory trade-off
using rainbow tables. This is a new variant of Hellman's original trade-off,
with better performance. It recovers 99.9% of alphanumeric passwords in
seconds. Features:
- Runs on Windows, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, etc.
- Cracks LM and NTLM hashes
- Free tables available for alphanumeric LM hashes
- Brute-force module for simple passwords
- Audit mode and CSV export
- Real-time graphs to analyze passwords (optional)
- Loads hashes from local and remote SAM
- Loads hashes from encrypted SAM recovered from a Windows partition,
Vista included
- Supports soon to be released XP flash and Vista eight XL tables
MUNGE (MUNGE Uid 'N' Gid Emporium) is an authentication service for creating and
validating credentials. It is designed to be highly scalable for use in an HPC
cluster environment. It allows a process to authenticate the UID and GID of
another local or remote process within a group of hosts having common users and
groups. These hosts form a security realm that is defined by a shared
cryptographic key. Clients within this security realm can create and validate
credentials without the use of root privileges, reserved ports, or
platform-specific methods.
ed25519ll is a low-level wrapper for the Ed25519 public key signature
system. It uses Extension() to compile a shared library that is not a
Python extension module, and then uses ctypes to talk to the library. With
luck it will only be necessary to compile ed25519ll once for each
platform, reusing its shared library across Python versions.
This wrapper also contains a reasonably performat pure-Python
fallback. Unlike the reference implementation, the Python implementation
does not contain protection against timing attacks.
'tsshbatch' is a tool to enable you to issue a command to many servers
without having to log into each one separately. When writing scripts,
this overcomes the 'ssh' limitation of not being able to specify the
password on the command line.
'tsshbatch' also understands basic 'sudo' syntax and can be used to
access a server, 'sudo' a command, and then exit.
'tsshbatch' thus allows you to write complex, hands-off scripts that
issue commands to many servers without the tedium of manual login and
'sudo' promotion. System administrators, especially, will find this
helpful when working in large server farms.
Rsyncrypto is a modified encryption scheme. It is based on industry standard
AES for symmetric encryption, as well as RSA for having different keys for
each file while allowing a single key to decrypt all files. It even uses an
encryption mode that is based on CBC.
Rsyncrypto does, however, do one thing differently. It changes the encryption
schema from plain CBC to a slightly modified version. This modification ensures
that two almost identical files, such as the same file before an after a
change, when encrypted using rsyncrypto and the same key, will produce almost
identical encrypted files. This means that both objectives can be achieved
simultaneously.
FVCool is the FreeBSD version of the famous VCool software
(http://vcool.occludo.net) which changes the PCI configuration data
of some chipsets and thus allows AMD Athlon/Duron CPUs to go into
power-save mode. This makes the CPU consume a lot less electric
energy, and it produces a lot less heat as well. This trick is not
a secret - on FreeBSD, you can actually achieve the same effect
which this software has using the "pciconf" command.
Please note that this software may have a negative impact on the
system's stability and thus should not be employed in production
or mission-critical environments.
task spooler is a Unix batch system where the tasks spooled run one
after the other. Each user in each system has his own job queue. The
tasks are run in the correct context (that of enqueue) from any
shell/process, and its output/results can be easily watched. It is
very useful when you know that your commands depend on a lot of RAM,
a lot of disk use, give a lot of output, or for whatever reason it's
better not to run them at the same time.