Title :
Kairos: An Architecture for Securing Authorship and Temporal Information of Provenance Data in Grid-Enabled Workflow Management Systems
Author :
Gadelha, Luiz M R, Jr. ; Mattoso, Marta
Author_Institution :
Comput. & Syst. Eng. Program, Fed. Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Abstract :
Secure provenance techniques are essential in generating trustworthy provenance records, where one is interested in protecting their integrity, confidentiality, and availability. In this work, we suggest an architecture to provide protection of authorship and temporal information in grid-enabled provenance systems. It can be used in the resolution of conflicting intellectual property claims, and in the reliable chronological reconstitution of scientific experiments. We observe that some techniques from public key infrastructures can be readily applied for this purpose. We discuss the issues involved in the implementation of such architecture and describe some experiments realized with the proposed techniques.
Keywords :
data analysis; grid computing; industrial property; public key cryptography; workflow management software; authorship; chronological constitution; grid-enabled workflow management systems; intellectual property claims; provenance data; public key infrastructures; temporal information; trustworthy provenance records; Computer architecture; Data security; Digital signatures; Distributed computing; Grid computing; Information security; Intellectual property; Mesh generation; Protection; Workflow management software; grid computing; provenance; scientific workflows; security;
Conference_Titel :
eScience, 2008. eScience '08. IEEE Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Indianapolis, IN
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3380-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3535-7
DOI :
10.1109/eScience.2008.161
