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Rainer Gerhards
Personal blog · blog.gerhards.netsystemsprogramming
Rainer Gerhards's personal blog at blog.gerhards.net covers systems and programming. Since 2011, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Rsyslog's first signature provider: why Guardtime?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Rainer Gerhards' blog for details of his rsyslog project, including how he hosts its repository and the rsyslog log-signing feature. The comments do not assess its writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Tech Enthusiast. Nature Lover. Computer Geek. rsyslog lead developer.
Most-linked posts?
- Rsyslog's first signature provider: why Guardtime?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-06-07
What Hacker News says?
Well, hosting everything with a service that is backed by a company and over which you have no control was never a good move. See how Rainer Gerhards hosts his rsyslog ( http://blog.gerhards.net/2013_12_01_archive.html ): one canonical repository, and GitHub as a peer. Given git's distributed nature, there can be as many clones in as many services (Gitlab, BitBucket, others) as maintainers deem sensible.
Comment linking /2013_12_01_archive.html
on “SourceForge and Slashdot Have Been Sold”Submitted Rsyslog's first signature provider: why Guardtime? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionjournald's Forward Secure Sealing is an easy to use integrity mechanism that was previously unavailable in text-based syslog implementations... of course it cannot prevent your adversary from deleting all the logs, but at least that can be reliably detected. http://lwn.net/Articles/512895/ And rsyslog can cryptographically sign logs too nowadays: http://blog.gerhards.net/2013/05/rsyslogs-first-signature-pr...
Comment linking /2013/05/rsyslogs-first-signature-provider-why.html
on “Avoiding systemd isn't hard”Submitted Author of rsyslogd: What I don't like about journald as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted What's next with rsyslog? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some cleanup in upcoming rsyslog v8 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On the (un)reliability of plain tcp syslog (2008) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Serious syslog problems? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
