Encrypted syslog over network
Erik Norgaard
norgaard at locolomo.org
Fri Jan 27 05:22:07 PST 2006
Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> On 1/27/06, Erik Norgaard <norgaard at locolomo.org> wrote:
>> Hi:
>>
>> I was thinking, is there any way of secure syslogging to a different
>> server?
>>
>> AFAIK syslog uses udp/514 and I would like to monitor a number of remote
>> hosts.
>>
>> Now, for privacy and security reasons, I would like that the syslog
>> messages are sent encrypted. This may require pre-shared keys as the udp
>> protocol does not include a handshake and key exchange.
>>
>> Any solution for this? syslog-ng doesn't seem to include such feature.
>>
> It's 2006. IPSec is the answer.
Yeah, I considered that, but then you have the problem with NAT,
something lighter would be neat.
Cheers, Erik
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