Re: working on a new syslogd.

["Ivan Arce,CORE SDI" <ivan () securenetworks com>]

On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Darren Reed wrote:

> In some mail from Aleph One, sie said:
> > Why not work with the CORE S.A. folks that are working on ssyslog? Works
> > fine around here expect for a few gotchas, like not being able to rotate
> > logs without user intervention. I also wonder how broad Schneier's patent
> > would be. Crypto hash chaining has been around for some time now.
>
> My main problem with encryption of the logs is that one of the design goals
> is for the messages logged to be "backward compatible" with the current

Darren,
 i havent seen your syslogd replacement (yet) but ssyslog does
not encrypt the logs, they are still plaintext. 
a chained hash is kept separetly to verify integrity.
-ivan

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