[logs] SYSLOG patent?

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Balazs Scheidler <bazsi at balabit.hu> wrote:
>
>  On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 12:18 +0100, Stefano Zanero wrote:
>  > A Ananth wrote:
>  > > All,
>  > >
>  > > European Patent EP1881668 published on 01/23/2008 is
>  > > entitled "THE METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR
>  > > TRANSFERRING SYSLOG MESSAGE" and assigned to Huawei
>  >
>  > > Anyone care to comment on the implications?
>  >
>  > It seems to me that the "invention" is "let's add a signal which
>  > automatically makes the syslog receiver switch to a secure channel".
>  >
>  > Am I reading it wrong ?
>  >
>
>  I'd describe it as a STARTTLS for syslog. Although not directly
>  specified in the IETF RFC drafts, this is trivial.
>
>  EPO should not have accepted that. STARTTLS is specified in a wide
>  variety of other protocols (pop3, imap, ldap, etc...)
>

I was wondering about the roll back mechanisms.. not that I have seen
logs 'rolled' back (or would want a log system that could undo its
logs.)

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