[tor-talk] [announce] MAT 0.1 is out

Watson Ladd watsonbladd at gmail.com
Mon Oct 31 02:23:04 UTC 2011


I took a look at the README and it seems like the big dependency is a pure python library
for binary parsing. It might be worth including that in the source, rather then
trying to get it onto every package manager out there.
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 09:07:40PM -0400, Advrk Aplmrkt wrote:
> Can you give some pointers on dependencies and other per-requisites
> for the software? I would be very interested in trying to get it to
> work on Windows, Mac OS X, and other Linux distributions...
> Again thanks for making this!
> 
> On 30 October 2011 19:23, jvoisin <julien.voisin at dustri.org> wrote:
> > On 30 October 2011 21:36, Advrk Aplmrkt <avkaplmkt at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> This looks great, will there be Windoze and Mac OS X binaries
> >> available? Or is there documentation on how to build them?
> >
> > nop : it don't use OSX nor Windows,
> > so I really don't know how to make MAT running on those platforms,
> > sorry :/
> >>
> >> Thanks for making this! Is there a road map for future features?
> >
> > Only a small TODO file.
> > But I want to implement "un-watermarking" measures.
> >>
> >> On 30 October 2011 14:04, jvoisin <julien.voisin at dustri.org> wrote:
> >> > Hello everyone !
> >> >
> >> > The first release of MAT is here !
> >> > MAT stands for Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit, it was my 2011 GSoC
> >> > project
> >> > for Tor.
> >> >
> >> > It's a toolbox composed of a GUI application, a CLI application, and a
> >> > library.
> >> >
> >> > - What is a metadata ?
> >> > Metadata consist of information that characterizes data.
> >> > Metadata are used to provide documentation for data products.
> >> > In essence, metadata answer who, what, when, where, why, and how about
> >> > every
> >> > facet of the data that are being documented.
> >> >
> >> > - Why metadata can be a risk for your privacy ?
> >> > Metadata within a file can tell a lot about you.
> >> > Cameras record data about when a picture was taken and what camera was
> >> > used.
> >> > Office documents like pdf or Office automatically adds author and
> >> > company
> >> > information to documents and spreadsheets.
> >> > Maybe you don't want to disclose those information on the web.
> >> >
> >> > For now, Mat only removes metadata from your files, it does not
> >> > anonymise
> >> > their content,
> >> > nor can it handle watermarking, steganography, or any too custom
> >> > metadata
> >> > field/system.
> >> >
> >> > - Supported formats so far:
> >> >     Portable Network Graphics (.png)
> >> >     JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg, ...)
> >> >     Open Documents (.odt, .odx, .ods, ...)
> >> >     Office OpenXml (.docx, .pptx, .xlsx, ...)
> >> >     Portable Document Fileformat (.pdf)
> >> >     Tape ARchives (.tar, .tar.bz2, .tar.gz, ...)
> >> >     Zip (.zip)
> >> >     MPEG AUdio (.mp3, .mp2, .mp1, ...)
> >> >     Ogg Vorbis (.ogg, ...)
> >> >     Free Lossless Audio Codec (.flac)
> >> >     Torrent (.torrent)
> >> >
> >> > - Where does MAT lives ?
> >> > MAT is already packaged in Haven (https://www.haven-project.org/),
> >> > soon Tails (https://tails.boum.org/),
> >> > and in debian (http://bugs.debian.org/638504).
> >> > Stables versions are here : https://mat.boum.org/files/
> >> >
> >> > * git repo : https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/jvoisin/mat.git
> >> > * official website : https://mat.boum.org/
> >> > * old blog : mat-tor.blogspot.com
> >> >
> >> > If you have question, patches, bug reports, or simply want to talk about
> >> > this project, fell free ton contact jvoisin on irc.oftc.net
> >> >
> >> > -- Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
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