On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Caleb James DeLisle <calebdeli...@lavabit.com> wrote: > what anti-virus software might do when certain streams of bytes are sent > across > the tcp socket or persisted to disk. Perhaps worth contacting an AV company > and > asking what is the smallest data they have a signature on.
I stuffed the testnet chain full of the EICAR test string and it hasn't triggered for anyone— it seems that (most?) AV tools do not scan big binary files of unknown type.. apparently. If we encounter a case where they do we can implement storage scrambling: E.g. every node picks a random word and all their stored data is xored with it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
