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Date:      Mon, 28 Jul 1997 09:40:14 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To:        dholland@eecs.harvard.edu (David Holland)
Cc:        robert@cyrus.watson.org, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: secure logging (was: Re: security hole in FreeBSD)
Message-ID:  <199707281340.JAA03478@homeport.org>
In-Reply-To: <199707281312.JAA17812@burgundy.eecs.harvard.edu> from David Holland at "Jul 28, 97 09:12:37 am"

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| I don't know of any; if you run across one or are thinking about
| designing one, please post or mail... absent any other readily
| available secure mechanism probably the best bet is to carry log data
| over ssh. Of course, this doesn't solve the denial of service issue as
| anyone with a login can spam the local syslog.

I've been working on a draft set of requirements--very drafty, but
since the subject came up, I'll share & ask for feedback.


Requirements

      Reliability: The system must make substantial efforts to not
	lose information.  

            Network Requirements 
            TCP based 
            Application sequencing with explicit ack before sender deletes 
            Application Reliability 
            NO data discarding 
            Solid message handling locally-messages kept until discard
            Repeated message management (?) 

      Portability 
      External Alerting 
      External Intrusion Detection linking 


-- 
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
					               -Hume





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