[Aide] Minimum checks for file integrity?

[Andy Lawrence]

I'm currently running a complete test on two different machines, on each of
the following:

NORMAL
sha256
sha512
md5

Do you happen to know, are all of the above capable of detecting corrupt
files or single bit flips?  I would imagine md5 would be the quickest, but
is it enough protection?  I'm not trying to keep the NSA out, ha ha.


On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Richard van den Berg <richard at vdberg.org>wrote:

> Andy Lawrence wrote On 20-01-14 18:06:
>
>> Most definitely CPU bound.
>>
>
> In that case the sha256 from FIPSR and the sha512 are the bottleneck.
> Maybe search for a hash algorithm that performs better on your hardware.
> Select a subset of files and test the performance before you settle on a
> final aide.conf to use on your whole system.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Richard
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