Re: Simple authentication of syslog messages for embedded network devices

[Darren Reed]

In some email I received from Balazs Scheidler, sie wrote:
[...]
> I don't think we need two md5 hash for each log line (chain= and md5=) We
> could simply include the chain value implicitly in the value of md5. Here's
> the formula to use:
[...]

It is necessary otherwise it is possible to end up with a resulting log
file that cannot be put back together.  As far as the sending host is
concerned, everything is in sequence, but who knows what order they are
in on the receiving host ?

Darren