Re: Can snort calculate on-the-fly-md5sum ?

[Balasubramaniam Natarajan <bala150985 () gmail com>]

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com> wrote:

> So, I'm going to try and answer this question as delicately as I can
> without dancing too much around it.
>
> The answer is, not at the present time.  These features (and more) are in
> the next couple of versions of Snort.  We have been wanting to do this for
> some time, but we wanted to take the feature a step further than
> identifying the file, checking it against a known list, and blocking the
> file.  It took a lot of code, APIs, and time to be able to do what we
> wanted to do, but we are looking forward to rolling out new versions of
> Snort with features that have been a long time coming soon. (Much
> groundwork must have been laid first.)  We are planning on releasing a beta
> of Snort 2.9.4, today as a matter of fact, and more information about where
> we are headed with these features (and more) will be released soon.  As we
> are a public company, we can't disclose everything we are working on, but
> we're excited about what the future holds.
Thanks Joe



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Balasubramaniam Natarajan
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