An Adaptive System Responsive to Trust Assessment based on Peer-to-Peer Evidence Replication and Storage
Marco Casassa Mont, Lorenzo Tomasi, Rebecca Montanari · 2001
this paper we address the problem of storage, integrity and survivability of digital evidence within an enterprise, in the context of an Evidence Management Service. We introduce a peer-to-peer aspect to take advantage (in terms of storage and processing) of cheap and abundant resources (like PCs) available within medium and large enterprises. We describe a hybrid peer-to-peer architecture mitigated by the addition of a centralized trusted control component. The system is adaptive to the behavior of the peers since it is responsive to the assessment of their trustworthiness and reliability. We illustrate a few relevant use cases. * Internal Accession Date Only Approved for External Publication DEIS Department, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Copyright Hewlett-Packard Company 2001 1.