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The Monolith

In 2000-2001 NIST used an implementation of the FBI KFF provided by a contractor

Ran on a dual 800MHz server with 2GB RAM and 100GB RAID 5, one floppy drive, one CD drive

Environment was Windows NT Server 4, MS SQL Server 7, MS IIS 3

User logged into server console to perform work

User was presented with a series of text screens to collect information on the software product

Hard to follow the text screen progression, hard to correct typos

User inserted software media and did something else for an hour

This implementation opened .CAB and .ZIP files and hashed contents

Worked live on the database tables

Nearly impossible to get contractor to expand the capability (.tar, .uu, .sit)