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- From: jon_care@hicom.lut.ac.uk
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- Subject: Re: Tripwire release
- Message-ID: <1992Nov14.033909.11404@lut.ac.uk>
- Date: 14 Nov 92 03:39:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.004708.26881@cs.sandia.gov>, mccurley@cs.sandia.gov (Kevin McCurley) writes:
- >uri@watson.ibm.com (Uri Blumenthal) writes:
- >> Tripwire supports hooks for up to ten signature routines. We
- >>ship it with MD5, Snefru, CRC32, CRC16, MD4, and MD2. Although
- >>the CRC routines are not "signatures" in the cryptographic sense,
- >>they are nice to have since they are considerably faster than the
- >>more secure algorithms -- which are (hopefully) one-way hash
- >>functions.
- >
- >I stated earlier that NONE of these, including MD5, Snefru, and MD4,
- >are signatures in the cryptographic sense. A true signature would
- >require something like RSA or DSA layered on a one-way hash function
- >like MD5 or SHA. This would not significantly impact the speed, since
- >RSA on my Sparc would add less than .01 seconds, whereas MD5 runs at
- >about a megabyte per second. Hence as soon as the file is bigger than
- >10K, the hash will take longer than the signature. DSA verification
- >will take considerably longer, but I have an implementation that does
- >the verification in less than .3 seconds - still acceptable for many
- >applications. If this is too slow for checking 100 files on a UNIX
- >system, then you can apply the hash to a large subset of the files
- >before finishing with the signature.
- >
- >Kevin McCurley
- >Sandia National Laboratories
-