Re: Is there a good checksum system for OPENBSD?

["Marco Peereboom" <slash@peereboom.us>]

The other day there was an article in onlamp about this very question.

See: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html?page=2

----- Original Message -----
From: "John D." <lists@webcrunchers.com>
To: <list@dshield.org>
Cc: <python-list@python.org>; <tech@openbsd.org>
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 00:27
Subject: Is there a good checksum system for OPENBSD?


> I'm looking for a Program that compares md5 file checksums in a file
against actual files and reports discrepancies.   A commercial program like
"Tripwire" does this,  but isn't there an Open Source program that can do
this.
>
> It would be a good thing to use for files in the /bin directories,  and
other places where one would not expect files to be changed,   but would
easily identify trojans,  and other changes to executeable files and
binaries.
>
> I suppose it wouldn't be that hard to write this in Python or Perl.   But
how long would it take to checksum thousands of files?
>
> John