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(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)."
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DERIVED FROM: NSA/CSSM 1-52, DATED 08 JAN 2007 DECLASSIFY ON: 20320108