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     Tripwire v2.3.1 - distributed under the General Public License
                                 README
                             March 3, 2001
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DESCRIPTION

Tripwire v2.3.1 is an Open Source 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.


LINUX 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).


BSD DISTRIBUTIONS

- FreeBSD 4.2


WEBSITES

For access to the latest Open Source Tripwire v2.3.1 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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