Fw: GNUMed utilities: wxRiper

[Adrian Midgley]

I'd be grateful for your views on this since I can't evaluate it
myself.
The link to UK Crypto law is that this sort of thing might be used to
make medical records attributable/non-repudiatable/demonstrably
unchanged since made in court cases.

GNUMed isn't actually a GNU project by the way.

Midgley
-----Original Message-----
From: Horst Herb <horst@hherb.com>
To: openhealth-list@minoru-development.com
<openhealth-list@minoru-development.com>
Date: 07 March 2001 09:37
Subject: GNUMed utilities: wxRiper


>wxRiper is an attempt at a fully fledged "digital notary". It is part
of the
>GNUMed utility collection (spinoffs & small useful bits and pieces of
>software produced while developing the GNUMed project).
>
>It shall provide the badly needed answer to the lack of security and
lack of
>proof of integrity and authorship in most medical software packages.
>
>Essentially, wxRiper is a graphical user interface integrating tools
such as
>tar, bzip2, and gnupg. It allows you to select files by
point-and-click /
>file selector boxes (works), drag-and-drop (not yet), or command
line/piping
>(not yet). It watermarks files with the RIPEMD-160 algorithm (works
>already), archives them in a tar file (works), compresses it using
the bzip2
>algorithm (works).
>It creates a "rmd" file for each file backed up. This rmd file
contains a
>history of all  digital watermarks (works). All files can be
digitally
>signed and encrypted (not yet).
>
>wxRiper works as client or server (not yet), allowing to transfer
"notary
>files" to any wxRiper server through any TCP/IP connection (not yet)
which
>later can proof authorship and file integrity of any given file.
>
>The web server is still wobbly (might in fact be down
intermittently), and
>the software only available as source code for those not faint at
heart, but
>whoever wants to have a peek preview or wants to contribute, have a
go at
>http://www.gnumed.net/GNUMed_Utility_Collection.html
>(not even all links are functional yet)
>
>It compiles easily & runs on GNU/Linux, freeBSD and Windows, with
other
>Unixes or Macs your mileage may vary (but should work with little to
no
>variation).
>
>Regards,
>Horst