Hi there, On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 09/16/11 11:53, G.W. Haywood wrote: > > > > Is this one for Mr. Basford, or does it have wider implications? > > ... > > An IP address is a number between 0 and 2^32 (more or less). > There are plenty of ways to represent them.
Unless it's an IPV6 address. Yes, I believe I have seen a couple of different ways of representing numbers. :) > Who's to say which ones are obfuscated? Well in this case, I am. :) That is, I'm protecting people from criminals. I do that all day long, I've been doing it for much more than a decade, and I'm more than a little tired of it. > The decimal form is more efficient than the typical dotted-quad, which > is easier to remember. I don't think I'll argue the efficiency point on this list. I don't remember any of them very well, unfortunately. Goodness knows what it'll be like when we're all using IPV6... :( > You have to convert either to binary to figure out what a bitmask is > going to do to it. Nah, after thirty-odd years I can do it in my head with dotted quads. :) But the point remains, this is a pretty obvious and easy target for any scanner which is looking for malicious activity, so wouldn't it make sense to take a shot at it? I can do something approximating to what I think is needed with one or other of the Sendmail milters that I run, but it would probably be a lot more effective (and potentially a marketing coup) if ClamAV could do it. -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
