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		Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment

		Version 0.2

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Introduction

This piece of software was written as a replacement and extension
for Tripwire. Tripwire is an excellent program in it self but lacks
some features and is a closed product.

Current Features:
Multiple integrity checking algorithms
Ability to output the database to stdout
Easy configuration through a powerful configuration file

Planned Features:
Multiple database retrieval backend
Encrypted databases
Compressed databases


Requirements

Currently AIDE requires the following software to compile.
A C-compiler (such as GCC)
GNU flex 
GNU yacc 
GNU make

To do development you must have
automake
autoconf
autoheader

Documentation 

Documentation is in doc/ directory. 
The manual pages are a good place to start.



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