Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Jul 2007 19:57:35 +0200 | From | Erik Mouw <> | Subject | Re: Versioning file system |
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On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 09:57:40AM -0400, John Stoffel wrote: > >>>>> "Erik" == Erik Mouw <mouw@nl.linux.org> writes: > Erik> The only valid use of Streams in Windows I've seen was a virus > Erik> checker that stored a hash of the file in a separate > Erik> stream. Checking a file was a matter of rehashing it and > Erik> comparing against the hash stored in the special hash data > Erik> stream for that particular file. > > So what was stopping a virus from infecting a file, re-computing the > hash and pushing the new hash into the stream?
Nothing, but the same holds for virus checkers that store the hash in a separate file. The only advantage of storing the hash in a stream is that the stream is automatically deleted when you remove the file.
> You need to keep the computed hashes on Read-Only media for true > security, once you let the system change them, then you're toast....
Agreed.
Erik
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