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Date:      Fri, 8 Sep 1995 13:10:13 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      guido@spooky.lss.cp.philips.com (Guido van Rooij)
To:        piero@strider.ibenet.it
Cc:        stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua, wollman@lcs.mit.edu, security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Do we *really* need logger(1)?
Message-ID:  <m0sr1K1-000HneC@spooky.lss.cp.philips.com>
In-Reply-To: <199509081026.MAA22658@strider.ibenet.it> from "Piero Serini" at Sep 8, 95 12:26:37 pm

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Piero Serini wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
> Quoting from Andrew V. Stesin (Thu Sep  7 19:07:26 1995):
> > 	(b) Optional encryption capability for the messages,
> > 	    using the system-wide libcrypt facility;
> > 	    even very simple one will be good, with parameters stored in
> > 	    /etc/syslog.conf. Better than nothing, really.
> 
> Use the root passwd on the originating machine to encrypt the logs
> sent via network.
> 

I dont like a root password stored in a program. Better is to have a
diffie-hellman scheme to obtain a session key.

-Guido



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