We propose cryptographic protocols to incorporate time provenance guarantees while meeting confidentiality and controlled sharing needs for research data. We demonstrate the efficacy of these mechanisms by developing and benchmarking a practical tool, GovernR, which furthermore takes into usability issues and is compatible with a popular open-sourced research data storage platform, Dataverse. In doing so, we identify and provide a solution addressing an important gap (though applicable to only niche use cases) in practical research data management.
@article{arxiv.2307.14041,
title = {GovernR: Provenance and Confidentiality Guarantees In Research Data Repositories},
author = {Anwitaman Datta and Chua Chiah Soon and Wangfan Gu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.14041},
year = {2023}
}