Comments on: How LogStore Digitial Signatures will Work http://www.logtools.org/logstore-digital-signatures/ Useful tools for syslog and text logs Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:07:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: rgerhards http://www.logtools.org/logstore-digital-signatures/comment-page-1/#comment-7 rgerhards Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:07:12 +0000 http://www.logtools.org/?p=16#comment-7 The signed timestamp actually makes a lot of sense. Please also have a look at the comment of on my blog announcement:

http://blog.gerhards.net/2011/12/feedback-request-for-digitally-signed.html

I guess this pretty much boils down to the same issue. I will wait for more input, probably until mid-January, and then see what to implement and in which order.

]]> By: Martin http://www.logtools.org/logstore-digital-signatures/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Martin Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:39:54 +0000 http://www.logtools.org/?p=16#comment-6 One thought: I think the external hash is one way to prevent/detect a rewriting. Another way is to include a signed timestamp (i.e. from an external timestamp server) into a log partition.

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