Re: Inverse grep

Chris F Clark <cfc@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Sun, 12 Jun 2011 14:16:30 -0400

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From: Chris F Clark <cfc@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 14:16:30 -0400
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: 11-06-015
Keywords: lex, comment
Posted-Date: 13 Jun 2011 01:36:24 EDT

Actually, most "intrusion detection systems" (IDSes, e.g. Snort) and
virus scanners (e.g. ClamAV) are essentially just that. Given a
packet, the contents of the packet are inspected to see which if any
patterns are matched and if so, the relevant pattern [numbers] are
reported. Generally, the technology used does not actually build a
single pattern from the | of the patterns and run that FA, because
there aren't known efficient solutions to that problem for large
pattern sets. One either suffers space or time explosion to do so.


Hope this helps,
-Chris


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