Help - Adding size to a document? More security

[Loïc Grenié]

2008/11/23 Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu>

> 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.
>

    Oups. (however if you do not compress it, RLE will not enter the
picture)

          Loïc
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