Design and implementation of verifiable audit trails for a versioning file system

TY - CONF

T1 - Design and implementation of verifiable audit trails for a versioning file system

AU - Peterson, Zachary N.J.

AU - Burns, Randal

AU - Ateniese, Giuseppe

AU - Bono, Stephen

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2007 USENIX Association. All rights reserved.

PY - 2007

Y1 - 2007

N2 - We present constructs that create, manage, and verify digital audit trails for versioning file systems. Based upon a small amount of data published to a third party, a file system commits to a version history. At a later date, an auditor uses the published data to verify the contents of the file system at any point in time. Digital audit trails create an analog of the paper audit process for file data, helping to meet the requirements of electronic records legislation. Our techniques address the I/O and computational efficiency of generating and verifying audit trails, the aggregation of audit information in directory hierarchies, and independence to file system architectures.

AB - We present constructs that create, manage, and verify digital audit trails for versioning file systems. Based upon a small amount of data published to a third party, a file system commits to a version history. At a later date, an auditor uses the published data to verify the contents of the file system at any point in time. Digital audit trails create an analog of the paper audit process for file data, helping to meet the requirements of electronic records legislation. Our techniques address the I/O and computational efficiency of generating and verifying audit trails, the aggregation of audit information in directory hierarchies, and independence to file system architectures.

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M3 - Paper

SP - 93

EP - 106

T2 - 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, FAST 2007

Y2 - 13 February 2007 through 16 February 2007

ER -