Re: Syslog-sign: Overlapping signature blocks
Chris Lonvick <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.syslog |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi, On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Jon Callas wrote: > > On Jul 23, 2008, at 5:26 AM, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> The document seems to assume that the message ranges covered by >> different Signature Blocks don't overlap -- is this intentional? >> (If it is, it should be explicitly mentioned.) >> >> (One obvious approach to redundancy would be to send Signature Blocks >> covering an overlapping "sliding window" of messages, instead of >> resending an identical signature block multiple times. But that >> would require allowing overlap.) > > Overlap of sliding windows is a feature, not a bug. If anything, we should > reverse the polarity on your comment and more explicitly mention its utility. Agreed. I found this email which discusses the concept. http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00772.html I did re-read the ID and found that the concept is not clearly stated. Thanks, Chris _______________________________________________ Syslog mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/syslog