Pure Python Data Mangling or Encrypting
Gregory Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Jul 1 18:31:50 EDT 2015
Randall Smith wrote:
> Worse case, something that looks like this would land on the disk.
>
> crc32 checksum + translation table + malware
It would be safer to add something to both the
beginning *and* end of the file. Some file formats,
e.g. zip, pdf, are designed to be read starting
from the end.
So I would suggest something like
crc32 checksum + payload + translation table
--
Greg
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