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

fYear

2008

fDate

7-12 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

597

Lastpage

602

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/eScience.2008.161

Filename

4736871