Re: download of source packages alarmed clamav
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
> So, the tarball could be fixed to rot-13 the virus files stored in it,
> and re-rotate them when the test suite is run. (If virus scanners
> perhaps try rot-13, then instead encrypt the viruses with a key included
> in the source package, but that's probably overkill.)
That's a good idea. If ROT-13 isn't sufficient, a simple XOR cipher that
could be hacked together in a few lines of Python doubtless would be,
without the complexity of real encryption. But I bet ROT-13 would do it.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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