br-olf / ApacheLogAnonymizer

Anonymizes web server logs for long term storage in compliance with the GDPR.

ApacheLogAnonymizer

A small rust replacement for https://www.zendas.de/technik/sicherheit/apache/ which only works for IPv4 addresses.

Getting stated

cargo build --release

Usage

> ./target/debug/ApacheLogAnonymizer -h
ApacheLogAnonymizer 0.1.1
Olaf Pichler <[e-mail]>
Anonymizes web server logs for long term storage in compliance with the GDPR.
By default reads from STDIN and writes to STDOUT.

USAGE:
    ApacheLogAnonymizer [OPTIONS]

FLAGS:
    -h, --help       Prints help information
    -V, --version    Prints version information

OPTIONS:
    -i, --in-file <in-file>      file to read from instead of STDIN
    -o, --out-file <out-file>    file to redirect output to

A small Rust programm to anonymize webserver logs.

ApacheLogAnonymizer is intended to remove personal data from webserver log files in order to store them in compliance with the GDPR (german: DSGVO).

• ApacheLogAnonymizer uses regular expressions to search for IPv4 addresses, IPv6 addresses and URLs wit GET parameters.
• IP addresses are anonymized by tuncating the second half of all addresses.
• GET parameters are removed and replaced with XXXXX to indicate the removal.

ApacheLogAnonymizer was only tested with apache2 access.log and error.log samples.

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This program was written to the best of knowledge and ability but neither functionality nor correctness can be guaranteed.