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Add to SafariWhen comparing AIDE vs Samhain, the Slant community recommends AIDE for most people. In the question“What are the best file integrity checkers?” AIDE is ranked 1st while Samhain is ranked 23rd. The most important reason people chose AIDE is:
Allows for cross-compatibility, redundancy and portability.
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Pros
Pro Checksums stored in plaintext
Allows for cross-compatibility, redundancy and portability.
Pro Calculates multiple checksums
It gives you an added security against attacks on the hash function.
Pro Supports complicated file excludes
You can exclude folders, files, filetypes, etc.
Pro Provides ability to cryptographically sign configuration and database
Samhain provides a method to cryptographically sign both the configuration file(s) and the database.
Pro Provides centralized logging via secure channels
A centralized log server (titled yule) provides centralized log consolidation and a secure transport between the samhain client and the yule server.
Pro OS agnostic
Supports POSIX file systems, including Windows support through Cygwin.
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