ProvMark: A Provenance Expressiveness Benchmarking System

Sheung Chi Chan; James Cheney; Pramod Bhatotia; Thomas Pasquier; Ashish Gehani; Hassaan Irshad; Lucian Carata; Margo Seltzer

doi:10.1145/3361525.3361552

ProvMark: A Provenance Expressiveness Benchmarking System

Sheung Chi Chan, James Cheney, Pramod Bhatotia, Thomas Pasquier, Ashish Gehani, Hassaan Irshad, Lucian Carata, Margo Seltzer

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System level provenance is of widespread interest for applications such as security enforcement and information protection. However, testing the correctness or completeness of provenance capture tools is challenging and currently done manually. In some cases there is not even a clear consensus about what behavior is correct. We present an automated tool, ProvMark, that uses an existing provenance system as a black box and reliably identifies the provenance graph structure recorded for a given activity, by a reduction to subgraph isomorphism problems handled by an external solver. ProvMark is a beginning step in the much needed area of testing and comparing the expressiveness of provenance systems. We demonstrate ProvMark’s usefuless in comparing three capture systems with different architectures and distinct design philosophies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Middleware '19
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 20th International Middleware Conference
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	268–279
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-7009-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3361525.3361552
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2019
Event	ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference - Davis, United States Duration: 9 Dec 2019 → 13 Dec 2019 http://2019.middleware-conference.org/

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Conference	ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference
Abbreviated title	Middleware2019
Country/Territory	United States
City	Davis
Period	9/12/19 → 13/12/19
Internet address	http://2019.middleware-conference.org/

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Chan, SC, Cheney, J, Bhatotia, P, Pasquier, T, Gehani, A, Irshad, H, Carata, L & Seltzer, M 2019, ProvMark: A Provenance Expressiveness Benchmarking System. in Middleware '19: Proceedings of the 20th International Middleware Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 268–279, ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference, Davis, California, United States, 9/12/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3361525.3361552

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