[plug] Aide vs Tripwire?

[Christian]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 08:51:28AM +0800, Colin Muller wrote:
> Leon Brooks wrote:
> > 
> > Lloyds like TripWire:
> > 
> >     http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/newsbursts/0,7407,2626799,00.html
> 
> Insurance aside, does anyone know of any reasons not to use Aide instead
> of Tripwire?
> 
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~rammer/aide.html

At a quick glance, AIDE seems to support more hash functions so that's
an advantage, albeit a very tiny one.  Without evaluating AIDE (i.e.,
going purely on what's on the web page) it basically seems to do exactly
what Tripwire does except it's free software.  I'm not sure whether or
not it's quite as "mature" as Tripwire though.  Either way these tools
give minimal protection against a sophisticated attacker.