[jira] [Commented] (METRON-984) Create Stellar Decoding Functions

["Otto Fowler (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Otto Fowler commented on METRON-984:
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I propose that we start with the [apache commons codecs|http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-codec/userguide.html]
[~zeolla@gmail.com]?

> Create Stellar Decoding Functions
> ---------------------------------
>
>                 Key: METRON-984
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/METRON-984
>             Project: Metron
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Jon Zeolla
>            Assignee: Otto Fowler
>
> It is rather commonplace for malicious actors to obfuscate exploits or data transfers using encoding.  In order to identify and prioritize responses to (or automatically mitigate) those attacks during threat triage we should have a method for decoding in Stellar.  Some initial thoughts would be to handle percent/URL encoding, base64, base32, base16/hex, HTML encoding, etc.
> I would expect that something like DECODE(something, encoding_type, optional_failure_mode) would return the contents of field "something" after attempting to decode it via "encoding_type".  If decoding fails, optional_failure_mode would indicate whether or not to fail the message and send it to the error topology, or to simply return the contents of the original field "something" (in this example).



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