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       Tripwire v2.3 - distributed under the General Public License
                                README
                          September 1, 2000
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DESCRIPTION

Tripwire v2.3 is Security, Intrusion Detection, Damage Assessment and
Recovery, Forensics software.

This is a policy-based program which monitors file system changes as specified
in a policy file.  An encrypted database is used to help keep track of
modifications that have occurred in a system.


INSTALLATION NOTES

Please see the file INSTALL for instructions on building Tripwire.


DISTRIBUTIONS

- RedHat 7.0 (Intel only)

- Caldera 2.4 Workstation

- Turbolinux 6.0.1 

- SuSE 6.4

- Other major Linux distributions are currently under evaluation
  please check http://www.tripwire.org/ for further information.

- No other distributions have been Tripwire-certified as of September 1st,
  2000

- Please see WISHLIST for further information about the
  software development direction and which platforms are being considered for
  future support (These files distributed with Source Distributions only).


WEBSITES

For access to the latest Open Source Tripwire v2.3 software and for community
contact information, please see:
http://www.tripwire.org/

For Tripwire's Enterprise-ready/Network-enabled products, please see
http://www.tripwire.com/

For access to the latest open-sourced Tripwire software, please visit
Tripwire's project at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tripwire/


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 Copyright 2000 Tripwire, Inc. Tripwire is a registered trademark of Tripwire,
 Inc. in the United States and other countries. All rights reserved.

 Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

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