Log Preservation in Custody Dual Blockchain With Energy Regime and Obfuscation Shuffle

The rise of cybercrime has led to an explosion of threats in recent years, resulting in the increasingly important of digital forensics. To achieve successful investigation and prosecution, the log preservation is a critical aspect of incident response. The blockchain technology is considered as one of the powerful log storage mechanism, which bringing data transparency and non-tempering property aside from taking off the hypothesis of a trusted third party. Nevertheless, the sensitivity of the data makes it vulnerable to malicious attacks, and the adoption of blockchain has significantly burdened participants regarding consensus time and storage. To address these challenges, we aim to develop a custody dual blockchain (CDB) to secure the confidentiality and integrity of log data. The design of reputation consensus attains that only attractive participants need to offer computation and storage for efficiency enhancing, while the energy regime constructs a positive feedback loop that invigorates users to contribute to CDB. Moreover, the obfuscation shuffle effectively obscures the explicit log plaintext to prevent illegal access. Thus, the confidential data on the CDB nodes can even be used as evidence of digital forensics. Simulation results have demonstrated that the ledger overhead can be significantly reduced, and CDB could pass the robust examination of two formal proof tools: Proverif (Blanchet et al. 2021) and AVISPA 23.