The patches for the old version of Tripwire with the 8-bit problem have been in circulation for a while, and the source code is available. If someone wants more than that, the commercial version is available (as Austin noted). Tripwire 1.2 was released in August of 1994. Other than systems coming along after that so that the 1.2 distribution didn't have config files, there were only 2 significant bugs or problems reported in over 4 years: the timing problem, and the 8-bit filename problem. We posted a fix for the timing problem, and the 8-bit fix has been floating around mailing lists and newsgroups for years, and the fixed version was being shipped with RedHat at one point. We do research here at the university -- not product support. When Gene Kim's company offered to license Tripwire, maintain it, and enhance it, we were happy to turn it over to them. Not only was Gene the original author, but we were happy to hear that it would get ported to a Windows environment and enhanced in other ways, too. Thus, for the community happy with freeware and source code, you have TW 1.2 for Unix, and you can patch it or extend it as you wish, so long as you respect the copyright and trademark restrictions. For the people who want a formally-supported product or new features or new platform support, contact the folks at Tripwire and see what they have to offer. In either case, I would argue that the code is being properly maintained, as Austin noted.
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