A secure log architecture to support remote auditing

This paper presents BBox, a digital black box to provide for authentic archiving (and, consequently, forensic evidence) for remote auditing in distributed systems. Based upon public key cryptography and trusted computing platforms, the BBox employs standard primitives to ensure the authenticity of records during the transmission from devices to the collector, as well as during their storage on the collector and keyword retrieval by authorized auditors. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.