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

jvoisin julien.voisin at dustri.org
Mon Oct 31 11:44:21 UTC 2011


Ugh, I don't think that a direct inclusion of a maintained lib
inside MAT is a good idea (At least for the packet distribution,
for a "portable tarball", it might be a good idea).

On 31 October 2011 03:23, Watson Ladd <watsonbladd at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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