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This paper presents Progger 3, the latest version of the provenance collection tool, Progger. We outline the design goals for Progger 3 and describe in detail how the architecture achieves those goals. In contrast to previous versions of Progger, this version can observe any system call, guarantee tamper-proof provenance collection as long as the kernel on the client is not compromised, and transfer the provenance to other systems with confidentiality and integrity, all with a relatively low performance overhead.
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This achieves design goal J.
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There is a feature of Linux called “kernel TLS”, but that deals with data encryption only; the more complicated handshake is left to user space [5].
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The only exceptions to this were that Progger 3 warned when running without using the TPM—which is benign when done intentionally during testing—and that some ring buffer overflows occurred, as sometimes the test server didn’t receive the data sent by Progger 3 fast enough, due to data reception and processing being on the same thread in the server.
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This work was supported by funding from STRATUS (https://stratus.org.nz), a science investment project funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE). The authors would also like to acknowledge support from Prof. Ryan Ko and the team at Firstwatch for providing access to Progger 1 and 2.
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Corrick, T., Kumar, V. (2022). Design and Architecture of Progger 3: A Low-Overhead, Tamper-Proof Provenance System. In: Wang, G., Choo, KK.R., Ko, R.K.L., Xu, Y., Crispo, B. (eds) Ubiquitous Security. UbiSec 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1557. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0468-4_14
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