full-disclosure - Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filt er..

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <3538605408.1061430085@localhost>
From: pauls at utdallas.edu (Paul Schmehl)
Subject: Administrivia: Testing Emergency Virus Filt
	er..

--On Thursday, August 21, 2003 11:56:15 +1200 Nick FitzGerald 
<nick@...us-l.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 2.  I suspect that Mr Turing and a his halting problem will intervene
> in any attempt to devise a foolproof "this message contains an
> attachment" mechanism.  The obvious choice to break any such system is
> steganographic encoding of a binary stream into a text message.  It may
> be grossly inefficient, but do you think that really matters?
>
Dammit, Nick, you just *had* to interrupt my reverie, didn't you?  :-)

Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu

_______________________________________________
Full-Disclosure - We believe in it.
Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html

________________________________________________________________________
This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email
Security System. For more information on a proactive email security
service working around the clock, around the globe, visit
http://www.messagelabs.com
________________________________________________________________________