On Dec 7, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Peter Gutmann wrote: > Steven Bellovin <[email protected]> writes: > >> Assume that there is some benefit to digitally-signed code. > > There is at least one very obvious benefit: When malware is signed, it can't > mutate on each generation any more but has to remain static. This makes it > easier for the anti-malware folks to detect.
This is only true if signing the malware is an expensive (in some terms) proposition. It's certainly not expensive in terms of computing power. -- Marshall Marshall Clow Idio Software <mailto:[email protected]> A.D. 1517: Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the church door and is promptly moderated down to (-1, Flamebait). -- Yu Suzuki _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
