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Re:Systemd, ten years later: a historical and technical retr... by Supermancho on Monday May 04, 2020 @12:19AM (#23064510)
> you can have fun evening inventing your own shitty binary journal format.

I thought the reasoning was to make logs harder (or impossible) to tamper with.

Something something about trading freedom for security.

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Re:Systemd, ten years later: a historical and technical retr... by Supermancho on Monday May 04, 2020 @02:40PM (#23071672)
> https://lwn.net/Articles/512895/

the binary logs handled by the systemd journal can be "sealed" at regular time intervals. That seal is a cryptographic operation on the log data such that any tampering prior to the seal can be detected.

This might be news to some people.

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