# \[JIRA\] (BIT-1143) Investigate replacing libmagic w/ signatures for file identificaiton

**URL:** <https://community.zeek.org/t/jira-bit-1143-investigate-replacing-libmagic-w-signatures-for-file-identificaiton/3013>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** development\
**Created:** [February 21, 2014, 9:35pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/jira-bit-1143-investigate-replacing-libmagic-w-signatures-for-file-identificaiton/3013 "2014-02-21T21:35:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![robin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/community.zeek.org/robin/32/599_2.png) [@robin](https://community.zeek.org/u/robin)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2014, 9:35pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/jira-bit-1143-investigate-replacing-libmagic-w-signatures-for-file-identificaiton/3013/1 "2014-02-21T21:35:15Z")

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Wedging it in is fine for now. Eventually we might end up doing a  
larger redesign of the signature engine to improve performance and  
broaden its use cases. Creating a separate magic engine now doesn't  
seem to be worth the effort.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/zeek/original/1X/f09d732bc2cc7c7cc7e35db67cf4e1d5233ce7a7.png) [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 3:41pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/jira-bit-1143-investigate-replacing-libmagic-w-signatures-for-file-identificaiton/3013/2 "2022-05-06T15:41:36Z")

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