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List:       firewalls-gc
Subject:    RE: Re: Virus Scanner
From:       Paul Ferguson <pferguso () cisco ! com>
Date:       1997-07-28 11:44:48
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At 11:20 AM 07/28/97 -0400, Jerry Huyghe wrote:

> However, keep in mind that encrypted
> transmissions are slightly less likely to contain viruses anyway.
>

This is what I call a 'gratuitous assertion'. Please provide a
rationale for this statement. I would argue that encrypted traffic
is no less susceptible to contain virus-infected data (executable
attachments or any other transmittable virus) than unencrypted
traffic.

- paul


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