About:
Sentinel is a fast file scanner similar to Tripwire or Viper with built in authentication using the RIPEMD 160 bit MAC hashing function. It uses a single database similar to Tripwire, maintains file integrity using the RIPEMD algorithm and also produces secure, signed logfiles. Its main design goal is to detect intruders modifying files. It also prevents intruders with root/superuser permissions from tampering with its log files and database. Disclaimer: this is not a security toolkit. It is a single purpose file/drive scanning program. Available versions are for linux (tested on all current Slackware and RedHat releases), with Irix versions soon to be added on.

Author:
Zurk <zurk (at) usa (dot) net> [contact developer]

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Homepage:
http://zurk.sourceforge.net/zfile.html
Tar/GZ:
http://zurk.sourceforge.net/sentinel-1.2.1c.tar.gz

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Topic]		Security

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.2.1c+	23-Apr-2001	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
1.2.1c+	Minor feature enhancements	23-Apr-2001 21:42
1.2.1c	Major feature enhancements	20-Mar-2001 06:40
1.2.0c	N/A	13-Sep-1999 12:39
1.1.7c	N/A	01-Aug-1999 22:49
1.1.2c	N/A	30-Jul-1999 03:56
1.0.2c	N/A	17-Jul-1999 03:01

 Comments

[»] devel halted?
by karellen - May 16th 2000 15:37:38

What happened to Sentinel? The homepage/download is unreachable, no new versions were released since 09/99. I used to like this tool.

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[»] Re: devel halted?
by zurk - Mar 19th 2001 21:49:41


> What happened to Sentinel? The
> homepage/download is unreachable,
> no new versions were released since
> 09/99. I used to like this tool.
i didnt see the need to update it for a while. it didnt lack any features i
needed and then netpedia screwed up my account. anyway, ive release
1.2.1c if anyone is interested and posted it up to sourceforge.

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[»] sorry.
by zurk - Sep 13th 1999 21:15:51

just my way of typing code...i tend to type in a straight line on an SGI screen..thats 200 characters per line. I havent removed anything or tried to obfuscate(sp?) anything..its just my typing. :) I'll run cbeautifier on it when i get time.

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[»] Sentinel.c obfuscated?
by Morgaine - Aug 14th 1999 08:01:41

The C code in file sentinel.c appears to have been mildly obfuscated by removal of all indentation from function addfiletofilelistp() onwards. In a security tool, this is worrying.

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[»] last
by zurk - Aug 1st 1999 12:44:05

the distfile is 100K..i'm not compressing a 100K to save 20-30K. :) Anyway, i'm working on a graphical configure/monitor thing as soon as i stop adding stuff i really need...probably in the 1.2.x series.

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[»] distfile
by karellen - Jul 30th 1999 05:27:06

The distfile should be compressed with .gz or .bz2 so we
don't waste precious bandwidth :) And it's too bad it doesn't
have a ./configure script and I have to modify each new version to
fit my /paths :(

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