[Community-sigs] How to maintain human readable signature database?

[Rafael Ferreira]

Clamav (as of 0.99) supports YARA rules (see https://plusvic.github.io/yara/ <https://plusvic.github.io/yara/>) which are, objectively, more human friendly. 

> On Mar 26, 2016, at 2:14 PM, Do <do1 at yandex.ru> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Current signatures format is machine readable hex string dump sort of like
> machine code.
> 
> How developers maintain signature database, in a way so it's will be possible to
> add comments, write some strings in text instead of pure hex, so it all become
> bit more human readable, structured, and self-documented?
> What are suggestions on that?
> 
> Best regards,
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