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Subject: Re: Raptor / Seal / Sidwinder , plus E-mail
From: paul @ hawksbill . sprintmrn . com (Paul Ferguson)
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 1995 07:29:27 -0500 (EST)
To: edbjr @ mcs . com
Cc: Firewalls @ GreatCircle . com
In-reply-to: <m0sZoVj-000kEWC @ mailbox . mcs . com> from "edbjr @ mcs . com" at Jul 22, 95 07:03:00 pm

> 
> Also understand Sidewinder has E-mail scanning capability. Any 
> experience?  I envision files being passed which are UNIX "tar" 
> piped to "compress" piped to "btoa" and then mailed. Can the 
> companies who provide E-mail scanning detect "binaries" 
> particularly when they are encrypted into what would appear to 
> be an ASCII file?
> (Many UNIX types call this form rite of passage "Tarmail").
>


No. There are simply too may formats to attach/send binaries via
e-mail to be practical.


- paul

 
_______________________________________________________________________________
Paul Ferguson                         
US Sprint                                          tel: 703.689.6828
Managed Network Engineering                   internet: paul @
 hawk .
 sprintmrn .
 com
Reston, Virginia  USA                             http://www.sprintmrn.com 


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