Writing, supporting, and evaluating tripwire: a publically available security tool

摘要: Tripwire is an integrity checking program written for the Unix environment that gives system administrators ability to monitor file systems added, deleted, and modified files. First released in November of 1992, has undergone several updates current use at thousands machines worldwide. This paper begins with a brief overview what does how it works. We discuss certain implementation decisions affected course development. also present other applications have been found Tripwire. These unanticipated uses guided demands some users, we describe addressed these without compromising serve as useful security tool. We process releasing, then supporting, widely available used tool across Internet, meeting users' high expectations affects this process. How issues Tripwire, done independent study by undergraduate, discussed. Software tools were developing maintaining are presented. Finally, problems remain unresolved possible solutions