Add audit log with tamper detection #81
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Related Issue
Closes #39
Type of Change
Description of Change
Implemented a feature for audit logs and tamper detection with the logs
Implementation Details
ActionLogger
class which creates a .txt log files and stores all action of the usersha256
hashes for integrity fromhashlib
libraryGENESIS_ENTRY
, has asha256
hash of the textGENESIS_ENTRY
; the hashes of the next following lines are generated by taking the hash of the current log entry (date and small description of the task) + hash of the last entryIntegrityError
which checks for tampering with the log files. If a tampering is detected thenIntegrityError
is raised and the script exitsmain.py
file now checks for the tampering at the beginning before adding/extracting any datamain.py