RE: Encrypt Tomcat 4.1 log and log4j.properties log with MD5

2007-06-20 Thread Peter Crowther
> From: Tim Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have an evil admin, there is nothing stopping the him from > sniffing the network, or starting tomcat with a debugger > which can look > at the memory or {insert evil action here} ;) Sure. Or do the old trick we used to do with Suns - L1-A o

Re: Encrypt Tomcat 4.1 log and log4j.properties log with MD5

2007-06-20 Thread Tim Funk
If you have an evil admin, there is nothing stopping the him from sniffing the network, or starting tomcat with a debugger which can look at the memory or {insert evil action here} ;) -Tim Peter Crowther wrote: From: Nelson, Tracy M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] An easier approach might be to wr

RE: Encrypt Tomcat 4.1 log and log4j.properties log with MD5

2007-06-20 Thread Peter Crowther
> From: Nelson, Tracy M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > An easier approach might be to write your encrypting logger > as a filter > and have it take its input from a named pipe. I thought about suggesting that, but there's a weak point - there's nothing to stop an admin killing the encrypting logge

RE: Encrypt Tomcat 4.1 log and log4j.properties log with MD5

2007-06-20 Thread Nelson, Tracy M.
| From: Yulius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Wednesday, 20 June, 2007 05:07 | | I'm currently need to do the encryption towards the log files that has | been created by the webserver and the webapplication, so that only those | who has the password to decrypt the log files can read them. So

Re: Encrypt Tomcat 4.1 log and log4j.properties log with MD5

2007-06-20 Thread Johnny Kewl
gging engines... getting it back will require some parsing. Thats different good luck - Original Message - From: "Yulius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 12:06 PM Subject: Encrypt Tomcat 4.1 log and log4j.properties log with MD5 Hi, I&#

Re: Encrypt Tomcat 4.1 log and log4j.properties log with MD5

2007-06-20 Thread Andrew Miehs
a few times. Think you need to explain more, maybe can find another way I dont think this is an option. - Original Message - From: "Yulius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 12:06 PM Subject: Encrypt Tomcat 4.1 log and log4j.properties log

Re: Encrypt Tomcat 4.1 log and log4j.properties log with MD5

2007-06-20 Thread Johnny Kewl
t: Encrypt Tomcat 4.1 log and log4j.properties log with MD5 Hi, I'm currently need to do the encryption towards the log files that has been created by the webserver and the webapplication, so that only those who has the password to decrypt the log files can read them. Is there

Re: Encrypt Tomcat 4.1 log and log4j.properties log with MD5

2007-06-20 Thread Mladen Turk
Yulius wrote: Hi, I'm currently need to do the encryption towards the log files that has been created by the webserver and the webapplication, so that only those who has the password to decrypt the log files can read them. Huh, why would you need to encrypt those files? Isn't OS access

Re: Encrypt Tomcat 4.1 log and log4j.properties log with MD5

2007-06-20 Thread Tim Funk
md5 is a one way hash - so "encrypting" your log files with md5 will yield unreadable files Tomcat out of the box doesn't have anything like this. You would need to do the following write your own log4j appenders (or whatever they are called) which encrypt the data. Since log4j can (IIRC) can

Encrypt Tomcat 4.1 log and log4j.properties log with MD5

2007-06-20 Thread Yulius
Hi, I'm currently need to do the encryption towards the log files that has been created by the webserver and the webapplication, so that only those who has the password to decrypt the log files can read them. Is there a way to solve this issue? Thanks in advance Yulius