Subject: Re: what's in a name? fingerprinted exec
To: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
From: Joshua Lee <yid@softhome.net>
List: tech-security
Date: 10/20/2002 07:15:24
Daniel Carosone wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 10:04:03PM +0930, Brett Lymn wrote:
>>Someone else was thinking about pursuing this, it does provide some
>>other capabilities but has it's own downsides - you cannot apply the
>>scheme to a shell script.
> 
> I don't see why, it's just a matter of finding a method of attaching
> the signature in the file that is compatible with existing parsers.
> A sigblock in shell comments at the end seems fine to me.

That would work for some shells and perl, but not others.