An Adaptive System Responsive to Trust Assessment based on Peer-to-Peer Evidence Replication and Storage

In today's world, documents are mainly available in a paper-based format and there are mechanisms and infrastructures to manage them as evidence. In a near future this could not be the case anymore because of the growing popularity of the Internet and the shift towards digital documents. Along with many advantages, this will introduce a set of problems, last and not least the management of digital evidence over a long period of time as it involves long-term management of data integrity, long-term confidentiality, long-term identity tracking and long-term storage management.