Google blocking 7zip

[Ben Laurie]

On 28 March 2014 11:20, Roger Hayter <roger at hayter.org> wrote:
> Do gmail block encrypted files equipped with an 'inoffensive' extension?  Not claiming to be compressed or archived files?

GMail allows PGP.

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> Roger Hayter
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> On 28 Mar 2014, at 11:13, Gmail <codepope at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Well, there is another option and that is that something in your 7z archives is tripping
>> the scanning... Google may have turned on some of the VirusTotal scanning. Have you tried
>> dropping a smaller 7z archive into https://www.virustotal.com/ and seeing if it flags anything?
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>> Dj
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>> On 28 March 2014 at 11:04:35, Richard Hopkins (richard.hopkins at bristol.ac.uk) wrote:
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>>> --On 28 March 2014 10:30 +0000 Gmail <codepope at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> > One assumes this has expanded to .7z files and that the archive contains
>>> > one of the <dramatic music> banned extensions.
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>>> Yes, I kind of assumed the same (that .7z had been added to the list, but
>>> the webpage hasn't been updated to reflect).
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>>> However, *all* .7z (encrypted) archives are blocked, whether they contain
>>> "dangerous" attachments or not.
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>>> I'm hoping that Google have made a mistake here which they will recognise
>>> and fix real soon.
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>>> Cheers,
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>>> Richard
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>>> Richard
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>>> http://www.bris.ac.uk/infosec
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