Help - Adding size to a document? More security

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Sun Nov 23 19:28:18 UTC 2008


Loïc Grenié wrote:
> 2008/11/23 Manuel Gomez <mgdpz1 at gmail.com>
> 
>> Hi, i would like to add more size to a document to avoid hackers. If the
>> size is too big, troyans won't download the archive (it would take days
>> and days...)
>>
>> How could i do this? I am using "SFX compiler" for join an archive (3
>> gb, for example) with my documents, but i would like to know how its
>> done.
>>
>> I need: Open the document (for example, dbs in openoffice) in Linux, and
>> more than 1 gb of size.
>>
>> Thank you very much, I appreciate your help.
>>
> 
>     I'm not sure I understand your question. If you just wish to add 1Gb of
>   data to the file with name "filename" what you can do is:
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero size=4k count=256M >> filename
> 
>   This will add 1Gb of zeroes to your file.

Actually, it will add 1 TB of zeros...  However, RLE will cut that down
severely.

Matt Flaschen




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