Fossilized Index: The Linchpin of Trustworthy Non-Alterable Electronic Records

Summary: WORM alone is insufficient for trust; fossilized index via GHT prevents index-based modification. GHT matches B-tree performance and cost, enables reconstruction from index entries after expiry, and disposal reduces disclosure risk. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3714
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 6.4983179e-05
Overall Rank: 4,810 | 67.01%
DOI: 10.1145/1066157.1066203

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Authors

1. Qingbo Zhu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
2. Windsor W. Hsu (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{zhu_sigmod05,
        title = {{Fossilized Index: The Linchpin of Trustworthy Non-Alterable Electronic Records}},
        author = {Zhu, Qingbo and Hsu, Windsor W.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '05},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1066157.1066203},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1066157.1066203},
        year = {2005}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,312	Forensic Analysis of Database Tampering	2006	SIGMOD	6.7672592e-05
7,598	Software-Defined Data Protection: Low Overhead Policy Compliance at the Storage Layer is Within Reach!	2021	VLDB	5.5877452e-05
12,695	Trustworthy Keyword Search for Regulatory-Compliant Records Retention	2006	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
99	The Design of the POSTGRES Storage System	1987	VLDB	0.00034506601

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