A Comprehensive Reference Architecture for Trustworthy Long-Term Archiving of Sensitive Data

Abstract—It is well known that the suitability of many cryptographic algorithms decreases with time. Hence, it is a challenging task to maintain the integrity, authenticity, confidentiality and availability of sensitive data over very long periods of time. A scalable approach to preserve the integrity and authenticity of archived data has been standardized in [1]. The confidentiality and availability of data can be supported using secret sharing techniques according to [2]. This paper introduces a reference architecture for trustworthy long-term archiving of sensitive data based on the combination of these approaches.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: NTMS
• Authors: Detlef Hühnlein, Ulrike Korte, Lucie Langer, Alexander Wiesmaier
• Keywords: Emerging Technologies, NTMS 2009, Secret Sharing Techniques, Sensitive Data, Trustworthy Long-term Archiving