rsyslog’s first signature provider: why Guardtime?

The new has already spread: rsyslog 7.3 is the first version that natively supports log signatures, and does so via a newly introduced open signature provider interface. A lot of my followers quickly realized that and begun to play with it. To make sense of the provider interface, one obviously also needs a signature provider. I selected the keyless signature infrastructure (KSI), which is being engineered by the OpenKSI group. Quickly, I was asked what were the compelling reasons to provide the first signature provider for this technology.

So rather than writing many mails, I thought I blog about the reason ;) Continue reading “rsyslog’s first signature provider: why Guardtime?”