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Add support for RFC5848, signed syslog messages #21

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troglobit opened this issue May 12, 2020 · 2 comments
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Add support for RFC5848, signed syslog messages #21

troglobit opened this issue May 12, 2020 · 2 comments
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@troglobit
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NetBSD syslogd has support for signed syslog messages according to https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5848, this would be highly desirable for easily securing syslog without having the full blown TLS support.

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ghost commented Feb 17, 2022

The description sounds a lot like DNS Crypt or DNS Over TLS. What cryptography library were you thinking of using?

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The idea is still to track the upstream NetBSD and FreeBSD syslogd implementations. I have not looked into detail yet what they did, and what dependencies are introduced, but we will not re-implement the wheel.

Here's the NetBSD code, http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/syslogd/

@troglobit troglobit added this to the v3.0.0 milestone Jul 14, 2024
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