You may also want to visit Electrospaces. In some cases, you may find that covernames are listed across different agencies. This results from how covernames lists have often been created, which involved close reading of documents that were associated with different agencies and then listing covernames under the agency which authored the documents. In all cases, I would suggest you search across agency covername lists when researching a given covername. Most of the material provided below is derived from publicly available documents, books, and other resources.
Descriptions of what the covernames mean or refer to are done on a best-effort basis; if you believe there is additional publicly referenced material derived from NSA documents which could supplement descriptions please let me know.
The ultimate goal of APEX development was to do the following. Second, to perform processing and forwarding of the unwrapped content to data repositories, and optionally perform further target identification and traffic selection in TURMOIL.
Alternately, this covername refers to a project operated by either the NSA or GCHQ, and was involved in exploiting machines to exfiltrate information back to the agencies. It is unclear whether these were discrete programs. See: GCHQ covernames. See GCHQ covernames. Equation Group firewall operations catalogue. Unknown vendor Equation Group firewall operations catalogue.
SSO Dictionary, 1. See CSE covernames. It featured a plug-in architecture, which meant that it could be used for custom functions. The copied link is not disguised but, instead, is routed on an unused layer 2 path that a passive collector can monitor Analytic Challenges from Active-Passive Integration, 3. Utilizing CADENCE, dictionary managers as well as target analysts are able to submit, review, and forward dictionary updates electronically.
