I’ve been working through some of the issues raised on the Tripwire repository and someone has brought to my attention the possibility that two or more signatures in a system may use the same prefix eg. ABC-123 and ABC-456.
As is, I’m sure all mapping software assumes that this is not the case, uses a 3 digit prefix for each signature and proceeds to overwrite the original if there is another with the same prefix.
As this is not something I can recall seeing, I was wondering whether anyone can confirm whether such a situation is possible? Would be nice if someone at CCP (@CCP_Falcon) can chime in here!
If it is the case then I guess I’ll take up the challenge of fixing this issue in Tripwire.
I’ll start to take a proper look into this on Monday and start work on a fix now I know its possible.
@Chance_Ravinne do you have any input on how you’d see this working from a users point-of-view? At the moment if a duplicate is detected you’re prompted to overwrite the existing signature, this may need to change to allow these duplicates.
I’ll know more when I take some time to look into the code some more but any input would be appreciated so I don’t let y’all down!
Its pretty rare.
I have been working on a major update to Tripwire to not only address this issue but many others - it is essentially rewriting most of the core of Tripwire.