RE: Detecting Social Security Numbers?

["Truax, Shawn (MBS)" <Shawn.Truax () mbs gov on ca>]

If I have everything right the following should work better and catch the
0's as well.

/\d{3}-\d{2}-\d{4}/

As well its better to use $HOME_NET any -> $EXTERNAL_NET any rather then any
any -> any any.  Helps speed up the rules.

If you need to do a lot (or a little) regex work check out this little
program I found its really helpful and allows you to test more thoroughly
your expressions.

Regex Coach
http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/

Shawn Truax
Sr. Security Specialist
Corporate Security
155 University Ave.
Toronto, Ontario
M5H 3B7
(416)327-1107


-----Original Message-----
From: Brian [mailto:bmc () snort org]
Sent: September 10, 2004 5:04 PM
To: Harper, Patrick
Cc: Lyons, Jon; snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Dectecting Social Security Numbers?


On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 03:10:14PM -0500, Harper, Patrick wrote:
> /[1-9]{3,3}[-][1-9]{2,2}[-][1-9]{4,4}/

Lots of wasted foo.

    /[1-9]{3}-[1-9]{2}-[1-9]{4}/

-b


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