Why and Where: A Characterization of Data Provenance
ICDT '01 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Database Theory
Provenance management in curated databases
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Provenance as dependency analysis
Mathematical Structures in Computer Science - Programming Language Interference and Dependence
Fine-grained access-control for the Puppet configuration language
LISA'11 Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Large Installation System Administration
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Large system installations are increasingly configured using high-level, mostly-declarative languages. Often, different users contribute data that is compiled centrally and distributed to individual systems. Although the systems themselves have been developed with reliability and availability in mind, the configuration compilation process can lead to unforeseen vulnerabilities because of the lack of access control on the different components combined to build the final configuration. Even if simple change-based access controls are applied to validate changes to the final version, changes can be lost or incorrectly attributed. Based on the growing literature on provenance for database queries and other models of computation, we identify a potential application area for provenance to securing configuration languages.