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Secure audit logs to support computer forensics

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Schneier, Bruce, Kelsey, John·1999·ACM Transactions on Information and System Security
DOI 10.1145/317087.317089
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In many real-world applications, sensitive information must be kept it log files on an untrusted machine. In the event that an attacker captures this machine, we would like to guarantee that he will gain little or no information from the log files and to limit his ability to corrupt the log files. We describe a computationally cheap method for making all log entries generated prior to the logging machine's compromise impossible for the attacker to read, and also impossible to modify or destroy undetectably.

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Authors
Schneier, B., & Kelsey, J.
Affiliations
University of Minnesota (US)
ORCID
Venue
ACM Transactions on Information and System Security
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Published
1999-05
Volume
2
Issue
2
Pages
159-176
ISSN
  • 1094-9224 (ISSN-L)
  • 1557-7406
DOI
10.1145/317087.317089
OpenAlex
W1987593503
Cited by
443
References
26
Citations by year
2026: 38 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 18 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 22 · 2017: 19 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 30 · 2014: 29 · 2013: 23 · 2012: 21
FWCI
3.73
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright_policy#Background (vor)
Locations
ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › Cryptography and Data Security
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Hardware and Architecture › Security and Verification in Computing
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Digital and Cyber Forensics
Keywords
audit logs, log integrity, digital forensics, secure logging

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