[iwar] Historical posting


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Date: Mon, Jan 1, 1999
From: Fred Cohen 
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>FLAME ON

>Tripwire, swatch, and tiger were all free versions of capabilities that
>pre-existed in commercial products - with a subset of the commercial
>product features - and without proper citation to the previously
>published journal articles that led to their development.

>Keep trying, though... eventually you may come to an academic
>breakthrough...

>FLAME OFF

Swatch - Stephen E Hansen & E. Todd Atkins, Stanford University. "Automated
System Monitoring and Notification with Swatch," 1993 LISA Conference.
Currently
available from and developed at www.stanford.edu.

Tripwire - Developed by Eugene Spafford and Gene Kim at Purdue University in
1992,
the package was commercialized in 1998 and is now maintained by Tripwire
Security Inc.

Tiger - Written at Texas A&M University as part of the TAMU suite of
security tools -
the suite was developed in response to a series of coordinated Internet
intrusions that
occurred in the summer of 1992. "Texas A&M network security package
overview, " Dave Safford
Doug Schales, Dave Hess.

No flames just facts.