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The ‘Squirrel Accumulator’ Hosts the Latest Info on NSA’s Capabilities Against Targeted Technologies

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The "Squirrel Accumulator" is an electronic list of 184 application-layer protocols that the NSA has prioritized for exploitation. Five Eyes partners can post or read notes on the bulletin board.

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Mar 08, 2005

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Feb 05, 2018

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DYNAMIC PAGE -- HIGHEST POSSIBLE CLASSIFICATION IS TOP SECRET // SI / TK // REL TO USA AUS CAN GBR NZL (S//SI) The 'Squirrel Accumulator' Hosts the Latest Info on NSA's Capabilities Against Targeted Technologies FROM: Technical Director, Protocol Exploitation (S31212) Run Date: 03/08/2005 Web page launched with application-layer protocol information (S//SI) (S//SI) Would you like information on NSA's capabilities against a range of application-layer protocols? The Squirrel Accumulator serves as a "one-stop-shop" to provide you the answers. It is an electronic, on-line list of 184 application-layer protocols that were prioritized by A&P (Analysis & Production) and provided to Cryptanalysis and Exploitation Services (CES) for exploitation via SID's strategic metadata initiative. (S//SI) The system allows analysts and developers from around the Agency to seek out information on NSA's current exploitation capabilities against these protocols. Resources include: Protocol analysis, Methods for tasking the SIGINT system, The current status of NSA's exploitation capabilities, and A "bulletin board-style" notes system where anyone in the SIGINT community (including 2nd-Parties) can post or read notes about a particular protocol. (U//FOUO) To access the Squirrel Accumulator, simply type "go nuts", or visit us a "(U//FOUO) SIDtoday articles may not be republished or reposted outside NSANet without the consent of S0121 (DL sid_comms)." DYNAMIC PAGE -- HIGHEST POSSIBLE CLASSIFICATION IS TOP SECRET // SI / TK // REL TO USA AUS CAN GBR NZL DERIVED FROM: NSA/CSSM 1-52, DATED 08 JAN 2007 DECLASSIFY ON: 20320108