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Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 19:24:40 +0100
From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Makan Pourzandi <Makan.Pourzandi@ericsson.ca>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] DigSig 0.2: kernel module for digital signature verification for binaries
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On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 02:14:31PM -0400, Makan Pourzandi wrote:
> Hi Viro,
> 
> Obviously, I failed to show that the main functionality of digsig is to 
> avoid the execution of __normal__ rootkits, Trojan horses and other 
> malicious binaries on your system. 

<shrug> so in a month rootkits get updated and we are back to square 1,
with additional mess from patch...