On Aug 1, 2014, at 9:46 AM, Jonathan Wilkes <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there anything like a database for software that is critical to a
> functioning internet?
That’s a really interesting question. We maintain databases of critical
Internet _infrastructure_, but not software.
I suspect that a software list would be even more controversial and subjective
than infrastructure. But that doesn’t make it less worthwhile to track.
A few starting points:
Applications and Libraries:
BIND
NSD
Sendmail
GnuPG and/or OpenPGP
OpenDNSSEC
Apache/httpd
sshd
OpenSSL
MySQL
PostgreSQL
PHP
Perl
Safari
Firefox
Chrome
CyrusSASL
FreeRADIUS
Nginx
haproxy
memcached
Operating systems:
Cisco IOS
Juniper JunOS
Some Linux variants, like CentOS
VMware hypervisor
KVM hypervisor
What makes something critical? It seems like it needs to occupy a critical
niche (a function that is, itself, important), be widely used, and have few
easily-substituted alternatives.
-Bill
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