Independent research index / First release
Plain files. Open paths.
Portable metadata without a proprietary reader.
- Complete plaintext catalog (3477 records)
- Structured JSON catalog
- Coverage counts and gaps
- Phrack provenance manifest
Each record also has a stable /text/record-id.txt export. These are metadata and catalog notes, not the original article or transcript.
History and culture exports
Timeline plaintext · Timeline JSON · Myths plaintext · Myths JSON
Expanded archive · 16 October 2026
12,394 conference records · 3,962 technique and evidence records · 18,789 entries in unified search · Conference counts and gaps
The original 3,477-entry catalog remains separately exportable; 1,430 DEF CON records overlap the conference module and appear only once in unified search. Unknown historical denominators remain unknown. Two unchanged historical RFC originals are hosted separately; see the handbooks below.
Unified plaintext index · Conference plaintext catalog · Taxonomy JSON and per-record plaintext links
New research collections
Browse all 260 new records and leads · Search the complete index
Two preserved historical RFCs
RFC 1244 and RFC 2196: context, provenance and unchanged plaintext. Whole reproduction permitted under the IETF Trust policy; all original notices retained. Other source works remain metadata and links unless explicitly stated otherwise.