A Security Architect Is Designing a System to Satisfy User

Multiple Choice

A security architect is designing a system to satisfy user demand for reduced transaction time, increased security and message integrity, and improved cryptographic security. The resultant system will be used in an environment with a broad user base where many asynchronous transactions occur every minute and must be publicly verifiable. Which of the following solutions BEST meets all of the architect's objectives?

A) An internal key infrastructure that allows users to digitally sign transaction logs
B) An agreement with an entropy-as-a-service provider to increase the amount of randomness in generated keys.
C) A publicly verified hashing algorithm that allows revalidation of message integrity at a future date.
D) An open distributed transaction ledger that requires proof of work to append entries.