{"id":33,"date":"2012-11-09T15:44:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T14:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oss.stamfest.net\/wordpress\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2012-11-12T14:08:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T13:08:41","slug":"meo-faq","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oss.stamfest.net\/wordpress\/meo-faq","title":{"rendered":"MEO &#8211; FAQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Why should I use it?<\/h3>\n<p>There are many reasons where such a tool can be put to good use: Whenever you have information that is so sensitive that it should not be readily available (think log files containing personal information, think passwords to important company systems known to only a few but access might be required after a major desaster for other) it might make sense to force a 4-eyes policy.<\/p>\n<h3>This is a tool for terrorists! You are supporting them!<\/h3>\n<p>First: This is not a question. And it is also not the answer to any possible question. I am not supporting in any way any usage of cryptography for unlawful purposes. It is the other way round: I believe that bad guys are already using such technologies. I also strongly believe that it can be used very positively instead.\u00a0 In fact, the building blocks of MEO are used very widely\u00a0 these days. Everything in MEO is used day-by-day by everybody doing shopping or banking on the internet. There is actually no cryptographic software involved beyond what is provided by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openssl.org\/\">OpenSSL project<\/a> (which powers the SSL functionality on most Linux-based webservers) and other standard software.<\/p>\n<h3>Why don&#8217;t you host it on GitHub, Sourceforge, BitKeeper,&#8230;?<\/h3>\n<p>Because I haven&#8217;t made my mind up yet about any possible implications this might have. After all: this may count as cryptographic software and may be governed by special export rules. Almost all source hosting services are located in the US, and I am not.<\/p>\n<h3>What is the License of the MEO tool?<\/h3>\n<p>The tool is dual licensed: It is open source software using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/licenses\/agpl-3.0.html\">GNU Affero General Public License, Version 3<\/a> and it could be licensed commercially.<\/p>\n<h3>Where is the Repo? How can I contribute?<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"rrdtool java interface\" href=\"http:\/\/oss.stamfest.net\/hg\/meo\">Here is the mercurial repo<\/a>. Please note that this repo does not contain all the history from the internal development sprint. Regarding contribution: Currently MEO uses a dual licensing scheme, so when you want to contribute I kindly ask you to assign me the right\u00a0 for commercial licensing before I will apply any patches. This might change in the future, but I&#8217;ve got some mouthes to fill&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>I don&#8217;t understand how it works. Could you please explain it?<\/h3>\n<p>There is a <a title=\"MEO \u2013 Multiple Eyepairs Only\" href=\"http:\/\/oss.stamfest.net\/downloads\/meo-paper.pdf\">PDF paper<\/a> available that goes into the technical details. Try to read it first, please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why should I use it? There are many reasons where such a tool can be put to good use: Whenever you have information that is so sensitive that it should not be readily available (think log files containing personal information, think passwords to important company systems known to only a few but access might be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oss.stamfest.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oss.stamfest.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oss.stamfest.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oss.stamfest.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oss.stamfest.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/oss.stamfest.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/oss.stamfest.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oss.stamfest.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}