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ACRONIS NOTARY: A NEW WAY TO PROVE DATA AUTHENTICITY VIA BLOCKCHAIN
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Acronis Notary is a new, innovative service based on blockchain technology. But
before we move into that, let’s define what a blockchain is. It can be known to
some due to its usage in Bitcoin currency, but it’s a lot more than just bitcoin
technology and it can be used in a much wider set of scenarios, such as for data
protection.
Many industries have already started to use blockchain or are actively looking
into it. For example, cloud storage, art and ownership, anti-counterfeiting,
governance, Internet of things, and digital identity.
BUT WHAT IS BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY?
A blockchain is a distributed database that maintains a continuously growing
list of records that are secured from tampering and revision. It consists of
data-structure blocks that may contain data or programs, with each block holding
batches of individual transactions, and the results of any blockchain
executables. Every node in a decentralized system has a copy of the blockchain.
No centralized "official" copy exists and no user is "trusted" more than any
other.
The blockchain resides across a network of computers (nodes). Whenever new
transactions occur, the blockchain is authenticated across this distributed
network, before the transaction can be included as the next block on the chain.
So, the consensus of nodes is required to add the block into the blockchain.
The blockchain creates trust because a complete copy of the chain, which shows
every transaction, is held by the entire network. If someone attempts to cheat
the system, they can be easily identified.
To summarize, a blockchain is an append-only database with transaction order and
the following data protection properties:
* Immutable data storage
* Secure time-stamping
* Public audit
ACRONIS NOTARY SERVICE: HOW DOES IT WORK?
Acronis Notary is the universal solution for timestamping and fingerprinting any
data objects and streams. It is impractical to store big chunks of data in a
blockchain, which is why Acronis products will only send file/backup hashes to
the Notary service. The Notary service then calculates a single hash by using
the received file hashes, and then sends the new hash to the Etherium
(Blockchain-based distributed computing platform). The Notary service provides a
certificate and technical details about how to verify the certificate to the
user of Acronis Cyber Backup Cloud. Then, whenever that file is reflected in an
Acronis True Image user interface, the file is shown as notarized by Acronis.
This ensures that a user can be assured that the file that is being stored is in
fact identical, on a bit-by-bit basis, with what was backed up and stored in the
cloud — whether it was a few hours ago, or a few months ago.
Acronis Notary service – how it works
ACRONIS NOTARY TECHNOLOGY CAN PROTECT ANY DATA IN ANY INDUSTRY. COMMON USE CASES
INCLUDE:
* Proof of document ownership, including real-life and digital-work
attribution. It works very well for protection of intellectual property and,
for example, certifying who created, accessed, or modified a document.
* Certification that a document existed.
* Time-stamping is critical for digital contracts, research data, medical
records, evidence, petitions, purchase orders, etc. Users can seamlessly and
irrefutably prove the exact moment data in a document existed, for legal,
compliance, and business purposes. Users also can create a registry of
digitized copies of paper documents, proving their existence at a certain
time.
* Proof of Integrity. For example, the ability to demonstrate that data has not
been tampered with.
* Facilitation of sales and trading of digital assets or real objects, and
digital rights management.
* Users can digitally trace the document and find information about the
file/document movement.
* Proof of the product’s authenticity.
It goes even further when we talk about usage for Acronis Notary and blockchain
for business: chain-of-evidence for court documents, police video or security
camera footage, long-term archiving that could be subject to IT audits, and
‘consortium’ data storage where multiple entities or individuals need to
securely store and exchange massive amounts of data and information.
If we are talking about an individual user’s documents, these are examples of
what they may need to sign and notarize:
* Rental/lease agreements
* Sales contracts or asset purchase agreements
* Loan agreement
* Permission slips
* Financial documents
* Insurance documents
* Liability waiver
* Healthcare documents
* Research papers
* Certificate of product authenticity
* Nondisclosure agreements
* Offer letters
* Confidentiality agreements
* Independent contractor agreements
LET’S LOOK AT FEW EASY EXAMPLES OF ACRONIS NOTARY USAGE:
1. Sally is a composer and she has been skeptical about publishing her work on
the Internet. Using blockchain certification as a tool for copyright
protection can change her mind. Sally can create a protected backup of a
folder that contains her work. Once the backup is completed, she can obtain
a registration certificate with cryptographic evidence that protects her
copyright. The record is permanent and immutable. Sally can prove that her
piece of art existed at a certain time in past, was authored by her, and
claim her ownership for it.
2. Bill is a lawyer, and he needs to prove to a judge and jury that a file in
his possession can be proven to have been in existence on a certain
date/time. Using Acronis Notary, Bill can tie the file in his possession to
data on an Ethereum blockchain, which mathematically proves the existence of
the file.
3. Emily bought a certified diamond and notarized the certificate and the
invoice by using Acronis Notary. After a period of time, she decides to sell
the diamond. A buyer can use Acronis Notary to verify the initial
certificate. Once a buyer is confident about the original certificate, he
can then compare certification with a stone by using a third-party’s
professional evaluation.
4. Roger has an archive of paid bills that he keeps in electronic form. He
keeps all bills in the notarized backup. One day, Roger receives an overdue
notice for a bill that he paid two years ago. The record in blockchain is
permanent and immutable. Roger can prove that this bill was sent by mistake.
As you can see, in all cases using Acronis Notary technology, you compare a
“new” document with the original document’s certificate or just present original
certificate to prove your document timestamp and authenticity.
ACRONIS ASIGN
Notary is actually a foundation for another Acronis service within consumer
product line called ASign. It is an easy to use web interface which allows you
to digitally sign documents without having to print, sign, and scan them. It
supports sending documents to multiple signatories at the same time which
results in PDF file with all the details on the file and audit trail including
timestamps. The hash of this PDF is computed and goes to Acronis Notary,
creating a secure trail of the signatures in the blockchain.
At the moment you can only sign files stored in your Acronis Cloud backup. This
is done for security and authenticity reasons.
YOUR GUARANTEE THAT FILES ARE STILL EXACTLY THE SAME
Acronis Notary protects any data from tampering and deleting because data
immutability is algorithmically protected by the blockchain technology and can
be verified independently. A carefully designed service architecture ensures the
high throughput necessary for a wide range of industrial solutions. Because of
this, Acronis Notary can be installed as a proxy on any existing data stream and
requires no changes in the existing processes or infrastructure. More than that,
it can be deployed either in the cloud or on-premises
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