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Re: aide and tiger sending gpg crypted files



On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 20:28:24 +0200 (MEST),
Thomas Schmid <t.schmid@gmx.net> wrote:
> So, I set up my server with aide and tiger to check it's integrity. The
> reports are mailed to root which one is redirected to an other localadress
> and to a second adresse on a other server. My question is now: is it
> possible to let the mails be pgp encrypted with gnupg
I don't know either aide or tiger, but if there is a cron job like
aide | mail
then changing it to
aide | gpg -e -a | mail
may work.

> so I can check if
> the mails realy are from my server and that no one intercepted and changed
> them?
You may need a dedicated keypair for it because anyone who have
a copy of your public key can encrypt a fake report, intercept
the real report and replace it.

-- 
Oohara Yuuma <oohara@libra.interq.or.jp>
Debian developer
PGP key (key ID F464A695) http://www.interq.or.jp/libra/oohara/pub-key.txt
Key fingerprint = 6142 8D07 9C5B 159B C170  1F4A 40D6 F42E F464 A695

I always put away what I take.
--- Ryuji Akai, "Star away"


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