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Building an Encrypted and Searchable Audit Log. Brent Waters Dirk Balfanz Glenn Durfee D.K. Smetters. Audit Logs. Employed on most server systems Web logs Database logs Provide invaluable access to past activity Hold users accountable for their actions Diagnostics . - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Building an Encrypted and Searchable Audit Log

Brent Waters

Dirk BalfanzGlenn DurfeeD.K. Smetters

Audit Logs

• Employed on most server systems– Web logs– Database logs

• Provide invaluable access to past activity– Hold users accountable for their actions– Diagnostics

Desirable Characteristics

• Tamper Resistant• Verifiable

– Can check that entries are present and have not been altered

• Data Access Control– Entries may be sensitive to individuals or log owner

• Searchability– Search for log on specific criteria– e.g keyword search

Desirable Characteristics

• Tamper Resistant• Verifiable

– Can check that entries are present and have not been altered

• Data Access Control– Entries may be sensitive to individuals or log owner

• Searchability– Search for log on specific criteria– e.g keyword search

An Audit Log for a Database System

user: Alice Smithkeyword: carskeyword: makekeyword: fordtime: 2003/08/26 23:34:24

authentication clockkeyword extraction

“select * from cars where make=‘ford’”

databaseaudit record creation

keywords for audit record

log storage (untrusted)

Requirements

• Data Access Control– Entries must be encrypted on untrusted storage– Forward security in case auditing device becomes

compromised asymmetric encryption– Limit scope of data released to that of the search

• Searchability– Be able to efficiently retrieve entries based on certain criteria– We focus on keyword search

A Simple Solution

• Encrypt all entries with a public key• Auditor downloads all entries, then decrypts them,

then performs the search

A Simple Solution

• Encrypt all entries with a public key• Auditor downloads all entries, then decrypts them,

then performs the search

Disadvantages• Auditor sees all entries and regardless of what

search criteria was• All entries must be transmitted from server

auditrecord

Delegating Search Capabilities

investigator audit escrow agent

mastersecret

“user: Alice Smith”

capabilityfor search

investigator audit log

capabilityfor search

auditrecord

auditrecord …

1

2

The investigator submits the capability to the audit log and receives only entries that the capability matches.

The investigator requests a capability to search for all entries that were made by the user Alice.

Searching on Asymmetrically Encrypted Data

Auditing Device

Keywords

Alice

Ford

Loans

Document

Searching on Asymmetrically Encrypted Data

Auditing Device

Keywords

Alice

Ford

Loans

Document

Encrypted Data

Keywords must not be in the clear!

Searching on Asymmetrically Encrypted Data

Auditing Device

Keywords

Alice

Ford

Loans

Document

audit escrow agent

mastersecret

Encrypted Data

Searching on Asymmetrically Encrypted Data

Auditing Device

Keywords

Alice

Ford

Loans

Document

Honda

Search Capability

mastersecret

Encrypted Data

audit escrow agent

Searching on Asymmetrically Encrypted Data

Auditing Device

Keywords

Alice

Ford

Loans

Document

Honda

Search Capability

mastersecret

Encrypted Data

audit escrow agent

Searching on Asymmetrically Encrypted Data

Auditing Device

Keywords

Alice

Ford

Loans

Document

Honda

Search Capability

mastersecret

Encrypted Data

No information is learned

audit escrow agent

Searching on Asymmetrically Encrypted Data

Auditing Device

Keywords

Alice

Ford

Loans

Document

mastersecret

Encrypted Data

audit escrow agent

Searching on Asymmetrically Encrypted Data

Auditing Device

Keywords

Alice

Ford

Loans

Document

Alice

Search Capability

mastersecret

Encrypted Data

audit escrow agent

Searching on Asymmetrically Encrypted Data

Auditing Device

Keywords

Alice

Ford

Loans

Document

Alice

Search Capability

mastersecret

Encrypted DataKeywords

Alice

Ford

Loans

Document

Embed decryption in search

audit escrow agent

Identity Based Encryption (IBE)

• Public Key is simply a string e.g. bob@parc.com

• Private Key given from master secret holder(s)

• Removes need for distribution of public key certificates

• We use scheme of Boneh and Franklin (2001)

Using IBE to Search on Asymmetrically Encrypted Data

Keywords

Alice

Ford

Loans

Document Auditing Device

Using IBE to Search on Asymmetrically Encrypted Data

Auditing DeviceKeywords

Alice

Ford

Loans

Document

Document

K

Using IBE to Search on Asymmetrically Encrypted Data

Auditing DeviceKeywords

Alice

Ford

Loans

Document

Document

K

FLAG | K“Alice”

Using IBE to Search on Asymmetrically Encrypted Data

Auditing DeviceKeywords

Alice

Ford

Loans

Document

Document

K

FLAG | K“Alice”

FLAG | K“Ford”

Using IBE to Search on Asymmetrically Encrypted Data

Auditing DeviceKeywords

Alice

Ford

Loans

Document

Document

K

FLAG | K“Alice”

FLAG | K“Ford”

FLAG | K“Loans”

Using IBE to Search on Asymmetrically Encrypted Data

Auditing Device

•FLAG used to test

K to decrypt on match

Keywords

Alice

Ford

Loans

Document

Document

K

FLAG | K“Alice”

FLAG | K“Ford”

FLAG | K“Loans”

Using IBE to Search on Asymmetrically Encrypted Data

Auditing Device

•FLAG used to test

K to decrypt on match

•Key-privacy propertykeywords kept private

Keywords

Alice

Ford

Loans

Document

Document

K

FLAG | K“Alice”

FLAG | K“Ford”

FLAG | K“Loans”

Using IBE to Search on Asymmetrically Encrypted Data

Auditing Device

•FLAG used to test

K to decrypt on match

•Key-privacy propertykeywords kept private

•“Pairing” operation per keyword

Keywords

Alice

Ford

Loans

Document

Document

K

FLAG | K“Alice”

FLAG | K“Ford”

FLAG | K“Loans”

Using IBE to Search on Asymmetrically Encrypted Data

Alice

Search Capability

Document

K

FLAG | K“Alice”

FLAG | K“Ford”

FLAG | K“Loans”

Using IBE to Search on Asymmetrically Encrypted Data

Alice

Search Capability

•Attempt IBE decryption on each part

Test for presence of FLAGDocument

K

FLAG | K“Alice”

FLAG | K“Ford”

FLAG | K“Loans”

Using IBE to Search on Asymmetrically Encrypted Data

Alice

Search Capability

•Attempt IBE decryption on each part

Test for presence of FLAG

011010…

Document

K

FLAG | K“Alice”

FLAG | K“Ford”

FLAG | K“Loans”

Using IBE to Search on Asymmetrically Encrypted Data

Alice

Search Capability

•Attempt IBE decryption on each part

Test for presence of FLAG

0011100…

Document

K

FLAG | K“Alice”

FLAG | K“Ford”

FLAG | K“Loans”

Using IBE to Search on Asymmetrically Encrypted Data

Alice

Search Capability

•Attempt IBE decryption on each part

Test for presence of FLAG

FLAG | K

Document

K

FLAG | K“Alice”

FLAG | K“Ford”

FLAG | K“Loans”

Using IBE to Search on Asymmetrically Encrypted Data

Alice

Search Capability

•Attempt IBE decryption on each part

Test for presence of FLAG

•On match use K to decrypt document

DocumentDocument

K

FLAG | K“Alice”

FLAG | K“Ford”

FLAG | K“Loans”

FLAG | K

Using IBE to Search on Asymmetrically Encrypted Data

Alice

Search Capability

•Attempt IBE decryption on each part

Test for presence of FLAG

•On match use K to decrypt document

•Pairing per keyword in document

Document

K

FLAG | K“Alice”

FLAG | K“Ford”

FLAG | K“Loans”

Document

FLAG | K

Scoping of Keywords

• We want to type keywords

• e.g. Capability to search on entries about “Alice” vs. those made by “Alice”

• Solution: Prefix keywords with type– “user:Alice”– “kw:Alice”

Performance

• Encryption– One pairing per keyword in document– One exponentiation per keyword

• Search/Decryption– One pairing per keyword per document

Optimizations

• Cache pairings of frequently used keywords– eg. ê(“user:Alice”,sP)– Only need a pairing per new keyword on encryption– In limit exponentiation per keyword is dominant cost

Optimizations

• Cache pairings of frequently used keywords– eg. ê(“user:Alice”,sP)– Only need a pairing per new keyword on encryption– In limit exponentiation per keyword is dominant cost

• Reuse randomness for IBE encryption within one document– Okay since cannot use same public key per document– In decryption only one pairing per document– Save storage in log

Indexing

• Incremental update of an index on untrusted storage is insecure

Indexing

• Incremental update of an index on untrusted storage is insecure

Keywords

Alice

Ford

Loans

Document Index

Indexing

• Incremental update of an index on untrusted storage is insecure

Keywords

Alice

Ford

Loans

Document Index

Indexing

• Incremental update of an index on untrusted storage is insecure

Keywords

Alice

Loans

Washington

Document Index

Indexing

• Incremental update of an index on untrusted storage is insecure

Keywords

Alice

Loans

Washington

Document Index

Indexing• Build local index on auditing device and flush out

to storage

Indexing• Build local index on auditing device and flush out

to storage

Document

K’

Document

K’’

Document

K

FLAG | K | K’’ “Alice”

FLAG | …“Sam”

Indexing• Longer index is held in auditing device more

information leaked on device compromise

Implementation

• Implemented a logging system for MySQL database queries

• Goal to protect individual’s privacy

• Used Stanford IBE library

• Pairing cost ~80ms on current machines

Related Work

Searching on Encrypted Data• Boneh, Crescenzo, Ostrovsky and Persiano (2003)• Song, Wagner and Perrig (2000)• Goh (2003)

Identity Based Encryption• Boneh and Franklin (2001)

Conclusion

• Tension between data access control and searchability in audit logs

• Asymmetric scheme for searching on encrypted data

• Explored optimizations for practical systems

Searching on Asymmetrically Encrypted Data

Auditing Device

KeywordsAlice

Ford

Loans

Document

KeywordsAlice

Ford

Loans

Document

Bob

Search Capability

audit escrow agent

mastersecret

Encrypted Data

Using IBE to Search on Asymmetrically Encrypted Data

KeywordsAlice

Ford

Loans

Document Auditing Device

Document

K

FLAG | K“Alice”

FLAG | K“Ford”

FLAG | K“Loans”

•FLAG used to test

K to decrypt on match

•Key-privacy propertykeywords kept private

•“Pairing” operation per keyword

Using IBE to Search on Asymmetrically Encrypted Data

Document

K

FLAG | K“Alice”

FLAG | K“Ford”

FLAG | K“Loans”

Alice

Search Capability

•Attempt IBE decryption on each part

Test for presence of FLAG

•On match use K to decrypt document

•Pairing per test

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