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> you can have fun evening inventing your own shitty binary journal format. I thought the reasoning was to make logs harder (or impossible) to tamper with. S
by Supermancho 7y ago
> you can have fun evening inventing your own shitty binary journal format.
I thought the reasoning was to make logs harder (or impossible) to tamper with.
Something something about trading freedom for security.
- Supermancho 7y ago> https://lwn.net/Articles/512895/ https://lwn.net/Articles/512895/ the binary logs handled by the systemd journal can be "sealed" at regular time intervals. That seal is a cryptographic operation on the log data such that any tampering prior to the seal can be detected. This might be news to some people.