[Yanel-dev] Boost access log file format
Michael Wechner
michael.wechner at wyona.com
Tue Jun 29 10:48:41 CEST 2010
Cedric Staub wrote:
>> Btw, you might want to consider encryption and decryption of the log
>> file. The reason I am saying this
>> is because of privacy, etc.
>>
>
> Do you mean encryption of the access log as we write it (e.g. Yanel
> encrypts the output)?
yes
> I wouldn't know where to store the encryption
> keys, but anyone who would have access to the (physical) machine with
> the access logs on them would have access to the encryption keys as
> well unless the log is on a diffrent machine than Yanel (because we
> need to be able to decrypt the access logs when we need them).
>
I guess we could do it like with the public key method, which means we
encrypt it on one machine
and decrypt it on another (with different keys of course ;-)
I am not saying we have to do this right now, we need to keep it in the
back of our minds, because
it is important to consider privacy.
Cheers
Michi
> Greetings
> Cedric
>
>
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