A digital forensic model for providing better data provenance in the cloud

2014 Information Security for South Africa - Proceedings of the ISSA 2014 Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Trenwith, Philip M ^a   Venter, Hein S ^b  

^a Software Department GEW Technologies   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

annotations; bilinear pairing technique; chain of custody; Cloud Computing; data provenance; Digital Forensic Investigation; Digital Forensics

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTER CRIME; DIGITAL DEVICES; DIGITAL FORENSICS; ELECTRONIC CRIME COUNTERMEASURES; ELECTRONIC MAIL; PUBLIC KEY CRYPTOGRAPHY; SECURITY OF DATA;

ANNOTATIONS; BILINEAR PAIRING; CHAIN OF CUSTODY; DATA PROVENANCE; FORENSIC INVESTIGATION;

COMPUTER FORENSICS;

EID: 84913610840     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSA.2014.6950489     Document Type: Conference Paper

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