Composable Ledgers for Distributed Synchronic Web Archiving

TL;DR

This paper introduces a scalable, tamper-evident web archiving infrastructure using composable blockchain-based ledgers, enabling secure data provenance and flexible cryptographic information management across different adoption stages.

Contribution

It proposes a novel procedure for splitting and merging cryptographic data across blockchain-backed ledgers, enhancing web archiving scalability and security.

Findings

Preliminary performance results show feasibility for large-scale web archiving.

The infrastructure supports tamper-evident data provenance across multiple stages.

The approach enables flexible cryptographic information management.

Abstract

The Synchronic Web is a highly scalable notary infrastructure that provides tamper-evident data provenance for historical web data. In this document, we describe the applicability of this infrastructure for web archiving across three envisioned stages of adoption. We codify the core mechanism enabling the value proposition: a procedure for splitting and merging cryptographic information fluidly across blockchain-backed ledgers. Finally, we present preliminary performance results that indicate the feasibility of our approach for modern web archiving scales.