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making the logs temper evident through git like hash chains

making the logs temper evident through git like hash chains

Posted Nov 27, 2011 5:47 UTC (Sun) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: making the logs temper evident through git like hash chains by rgmoore
Parent article: The Journal - a proposed syslog replacement

however, since systems don't actually include WORM memory, and are very unlikely to (except for very specialized systems), how does that actually help?

remember that WORM memory needs to be a replaceable thing since by default you can't erase it to make room for new data.


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