Joey Hess <jo...@debian.org> writes:

> So, the tarball could be fixed to rot-13 the virus files stored in it,
> and re-rotate them when the test suite is run. (If virus scanners
> perhaps try rot-13, then instead encrypt the viruses with a key included
> in the source package, but that's probably overkill.)

That's a good idea.  If ROT-13 isn't sufficient, a simple XOR cipher that
could be hacked together in a few lines of Python doubtless would be,
without the complexity of real encryption.  But I bet ROT-13 would do it.

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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