[sanesecurity] Re: jurlbl signature name stability

  • From: "Bill Landry" <bill@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: sanesecurity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:53:13 -0700

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>
> On 18 Jun 2009 at 14:16, Bill Landry wrote:
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> [snip]
>
>> I'll be doing the same thing, however, I will not be hex encoding the
>> domain name in the signature name.  Rather, the INetMsg signatures will
>> look like:
>>
>>    INetMsg.SpamDomain-2w.example.com:4:*:6578616d706c652e636f6d
>>
>> You will be able to clearly see the domain listed in the signature name
>> (in this case "example.com" is the domain that is also encoded in the
>> hex
>> signature), so no decoding will be necessary to determine what domain
>> the signature triggered on and a simple search of the database for the
>> domain
>> name will determine whether the domain is still included or not.
>
> Thanks Steve and Bill, that's an great improvement, but Bill's format will
> self detect in
> most cases.  Could you replace the dot with an underscore to avoid further
> FPs?

Done - you will see the change with the next update.  Thanks for the
suggestion.

Bill


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