Trustworthy system logs and application logs are crucial for digital
forensics. Researchers have proposed different security mechanisms to ensure
the integrity and confidentiality of logs. However, applying current secure
logging schemes on heterogeneous formats of logs is tedious. Here, we propose
Forensics Aware Language (FAL), a domain-specific language (DSL) through
which we can apply a secure logging mechanism on any format of logs. Using
FAL, we can define log structure, which represents the format of logs and
ensures the security properties of a chosen secure logging scheme. This log
structure can later be used by FAL to serve two purposes: it can be used to
store system logs securely and it will help application developers for secure
application logging by generating the required source code.
Towards building a forensics aware language for secure logging