Document Integrity through Mediated Interfaces

Abstract

End-to-end integrity for documents is provided by wrapping the tools that manipulate those documents and mediating their operation to cryptographically integrity mark those documents as they are being saved, to check those documents are loaded, and to record an application-level history of the changes to the document. Corrupted documents (those failing to match their cryptographic integrity mark) are automatically repaired by replaying the recorded history of the application-level changes to the document. That recorded history is also used to identify all modifications (including date and author) to any selected portion of the document. A Document Integrity Manager embodying these capabilities has been developed for Microsoft Word.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 14, 2001
Accession Number
ADA408304

Entities

People

  • Marcelo Tallis
  • Robert Balzer

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Access Control
  • Indicators
  • Information Assurance
  • Information Operations
  • Keyboards
  • Language
  • Monitoring
  • Monitors
  • Operating Systems
  • Security
  • Sequences
  • Side Effects
  • Standards
  • User Interface
  • Word Processors

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Cybersecurity.