[Aide] Minimum checks for file integrity?

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:21:19AM -0500, Andy Lawrence wrote:
> I've just now discovered aide, many thanks to those involved.  I am using
> it solely for the purpose of detecting file integrity, corruption, mystery
> bit flips etc.  Using the NORMAL rule, FIPSR+sha512 a complete scan took a
> little over 15 hours to complete.  Looking to speed this up I'm wondering
> if for only file integrity concerns if there would be a better rule that
> would be safe but also faster?

Out of curiosity, how many files, how much data, and what kind of
machine? SSDs or rotating rust?

I have not seen a CPU-bound aide in years.

Greetings
Marc

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