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On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Caleb James DeLisle
<calebdelisle@lavabit.com> wrote:
> what anti-virus software might do when certain streams of bytes are sent =
across
> the tcp socket or persisted to disk. Perhaps worth contacting an AV compa=
ny and
> asking what is the smallest data they have a signature on.

I stuffed the testnet chain full of the EICAR test string and it
hasn't triggered for anyone=E2=80=94 it seems that (most?) AV tools do not
scan big binary files of unknown type.. apparently.

If we encounter a case where they do we can implement storage
scrambling: E.g. every node picks a random word and all their stored
data is xored with it.