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[Christian Campbell]

Jenkins, Jeremiah wrote:
> Although tripwire is a good system....you can do basically
> the same thing
> with the rpm -V (verify) command.  I think that's why
> tripwire is no longer
> part of the default install.
 
Is the RPM database encrypted?  If not, couldn't someone modify the RPM
database?  This is what made tripwire useful, the encrypted database of
files and their hashes.  

Christian