"Cisco Release Of Goner Worm Raises Eyebrows" (Newsbytes)

Sat Dec 15 03:16:14 UTC 2001

"Steven J. Sobol" wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, ben hubbard wrote:
>
> > > address the security considerations of executable content.
> >
> > Yes, but does nanog have the power to prohibit list users from using said mail
> > agent?
> >
> > It does (should?) however, have the ability to drop/refuse attachments
> > (possibly over a certain size) - like Mr. Li's 54Kb gift to the list.
>
> A digital signature won't be more than a couple K in size, will it?

I'd hope not - but thus the reason to drop only attachments over a
certain size -
(3k? 5k?) - to allow digital sig's, but can everything else.

Of course, if someone's digital signature is larger than 5Kb.... I
wouldn't mind
dropping it anyway ;)

Or, possibly, just drop the "large" attachments, but allow the
associated message?