BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0 ID:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR2001-400 ENTRY:: January 21, 2008 ORGANIZATION:: Dartmouth College, Computer Science TITLE:: An Armored Data Vault TYPE:: Technical Report (paper) REVISION:: 1 AUTHOR:: Iliev, Alex DATE:: May 2001 RETRIEVAL:: For a paper copy, email RETRIEVAL:: For a paper copy, write to Technical Report Librarian Department of Computer Science Dartmouth College 6211 Sudikoff Laboratory Hanover, NH 03755-3510 USA RETRIEVAL:: PDF at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2001-400.pdf ABSTRACT:: We consider the problem of secure long-term archiving of network traffic, an instance of the problem of storing data securely. We approach the problem using secure hardware, which enables the enforcement of flexible access policy. The policy cannot be circumvented by anyone, even insiders, and so we are assured that access to the data is as originally intended. The policy can be expressed as any feasible computation, as it will be checked inside the secure hardware without possibility of interference. We discuss our design of a device to perform such network data archiving and have implemented a prototpe device. We discuss other possible application areas of the design. NOTE:: Senior Honors Thesis. Advisor: Sean Smith. END:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR2001-400