Technical Patterns for Long Term Trusted Archiving

An increasingly large number of digital documents, need  to  be  preserved  by  organizations.  Business documents  such  as  various  contracts may be of great business  value, may only exit  in digital  form and may need  to  be  preserved  for  longer  periods  of  times  that may  span  over  decades  or  even  centuries.  The preservation  process  should  take  care  of  both  the integrity  and  authenticity  of  digital  documents, providing  proofs  of  document  authenticity.  Solutions providing  these  security  properties  do  exist  in  the market. In this paper we look into long term archiving best  practices  and  capture  them  on  a more  abstract, generic  level,  providing  a  set  of  core  long  term archiving security patterns.