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Blockchain offers a decentralized, immutable, transparent system of records. It offers a peer-to-peer network of nodes with no centralised governing entity making it unhackable and therefore, more secure than the traditional paper-based or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Harsh Jot Singh , Abdelhakim Senhaji Hafid

Ethereum is an open-source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform and operating system featuring smart contract functionality. In this paper, we proposed an Ethereum based eletronic voting (e-voting) protocol, Ques-Chain,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Qixuan Zhang , Bowen Xu , Haotian Jing , Zeyu Zheng

Smart contracts are self-executing programs on a blockchain to ensure immutable and transparent agreements without the involvement of intermediaries. Despite the growing popularity of smart contracts for many blockchain platforms like…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Taeyoung Kim , Yunhee Jang , Chanjong Lee , Hyungjoon Koo , Hyoungshick Kim

Public blockchains provide a decentralized method for storing transaction data and have many applications in different sectors. In order for users to track transactions, a simple method is to let them keep a local copy of the entire public…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Lei Xu , Lin Chen , Zhimin Gao , Shouhuai Xu , Weidong Shi

Blockchain technology offers a promising foundation for modernizing E-Voting systems by enhancing transparency, decentralization, and security. Yet, real-world adoption remains limited due to persistent challenges such as scalability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Kiana Kiashemshaki , Elvis Nnaemeka Chukwuani , Mohammad Jalili Torkamani , Negin Mahmoudi

Smart Contracts (SCs) are programs stored in a Blockchain to ensure agreements between two or more parties. Due to the unchangeable essence of Blockchain, failures or errors in SCs become perpetual once published. The reliability of SCs is…

This work proposes a scalable, blockchain-based platform for the secure sharing of COVID-19 or other disease vaccination certificates. As an indicative use case, we simulate a large-scale deployment by considering the countries of the…

This paper presents V-Guard, a new permissioned blockchain that achieves consensus for vehicular data under changing memberships, targeting the problem in V2X networks where vehicles are often intermittently connected on the roads. To…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Gengrui Zhang , Yunhao Mao , Shiquan Zhang , Shashank Motepalli , Fei Pan , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

In the second decade of the 21st century, blockchain definitely became one of the most trending computational technologies. This research aims to question the feasibility and suitability of using blockchain technology within e-voting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Umut Can Cabuk , Eylul Adiguzel , Enis Karaarslan

Proponents of blockchains believe that this technology will revolutionize e-commerce. To evaluate this belief, we invite several groups of students to transact on a decentralized peer-to-peer marketplace built on the platform provided by…

General Economics · Economics 2025-02-14 David Lee Kuo Chuen , Yang Li , Weibiao Xu , Willy Zhao

Innovative solution for addressing the challenges in the legal records management system through a blockchain-based eVault platform. Our objective is to create a secure, transparent, and accessible ecosystem that caters to the needs of all…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Jeba N , Anas S , Anuragav S , Abhishek R , Sachin K

In this paper we address the issue of change after deployment in safety-critical embedded system applications. Our goal is to substitute lab-based verification with in-field formal analysis to determine whether an update may be safely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Sönke Holthusen , Sophie Quinton , Ina Schaefer , Johannes Schlatow , Martin Wegner

Data tampering is often considered a severe problem in industrial applications as it can lead to inaccurate financial reports or even a corporate security crisis. A correct representation of data is essential for companies' core business…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Zeshun Shi , Jeroen Bergers , Ken Korsmit , Zhiming Zhao

This research study focuses primarily on Block-Chain-based voting systems, which facilitate participation in and administration of voting for voters, candidates, and officials. Because we used Block-Chain in the backend, which enables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Jagbeer Singh , Utkarsh Rastogi , Yash Goel , Brijesh Gupta , Utkarsh

Programs executed on a blockchain - smart contracts - have high financial stakes; their correctness is crucial. We argue, that this correctness needs to be foundational: correctness needs to be based on the operational semantics of their…

Blockchain is a type of decentralized distributed network which acts as an immutable digital ledger. Despite the absence of any central governing authority to validate the blocks in the ledger, it is considered secure and immutable due to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Shashank Joshi

The trade-off of secrecy is the difficulty of verification. This trade-off means that contracts must be kept private, yet their compliance needs to be verified, which we call the secrecy-verifiability paradox. However, the existing smart…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Ha-Thanh Nguyen

Deepfake technology is a major threat to the integrity of digital media. This paper presents a comprehensive framework for a blockchain-based decentralized system designed to tackle the escalating challenge of digital content integrity. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Dipankar Sarkar

Electronic systems tend to simplify the tedious traditional scheme and basically focuses on the platform design and process organization. The integrity of the output of an automated system is not left behind but the possibility of internal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-14 August Thio-ac , Alfred Keanu Serut , Rayn Louise Torrejos , Keenan Dave Rivo , Jessica Velasco

The rise of blockchain technology within a few years has attracted researchers across the world. The prime reason for worldwide attention is undoubtedly due to its feature of immutability along with the decentralized approach of data…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Saqib Hakak , Wazir Zada Khan , Gulshan Amin Gilkar , Basem Assiri , Mamoun Alazab , Sweta Bhattacharya , G Thippa Reddy