At 2:28 AM 06/20/94 -0400, Ed Carp [Sysadmin] wrote:

I've read about (with interest) the so-called "stealth viruses", and how they adapt to their environment - might crypto do the same thing?

There is no way to to translate the idea that I can see. Stealth viruses work by patching the interrupts that AV programs watch- (on a PC- Macs and other platforms are conceptually different) INT 21h, etc. and the file attributes repoting mechanisms in DOS, and lie. It is hardware specific, and I don't see anyway to translate the concept to a networked environment in order to fool 'traffic cops.' I wonder about the mutation engine concept, though... -j