Minimizing Bandwidth for Remote Access to Cryptographically Protected Audit Logs


Published: Feb 21, 2000 Updated: Feb 21, 2000 Section: Network Security Library :: Forensics Author: Company: Counterpane Internet Security, Inc. Printable Version Adjust font size: Rating: 3/5 - 10 Votes 1 2 3 4 5

Tamperproof audit logs are an essential tool for computer forensics. Building on the work in [SK98,SK99], we show how to build a tamperproof audit log where the amount of information exchange required to verify the entries in the audit log is greatly reduced. By making audit-log verification more efficient, this system is more suitable for implementation in low-bandwidth environments.

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