[Python-Dev] tamper-evident logs

[Fredrik Lundh]

Bryan L. Fordham wrote:

> I've written a simple http proxy that logs the domains visited.  The idea
> is that it keeps a list of the unique domains for each day.  No problem.
> The problem is that I want it to be obvious if someone has deleted
> something from the logs.
> 
> This is a little bit o' software meant to run on the user's box.  It does
> not have to be impossible to tamper with it, nor do I need to be able to
> say what was removed; just "hey, someone futzed with the log!"
> 
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

This mailing list is for development of Python itself, not for general
python questions.  I suggest posting to comp.lang.python, or maybe
to a security forum.  

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