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With the development of blockchain applications, the requirements for file storage in blockchain are increasing rapidly. Many protocols, including Filecoin, Arweave, and Sia, have been proposed to provide scalable decentralized file storage…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Hongyin Chen , Yuxuan Lu , Yukun Cheng

In Decentralized Applications, off-chain storage solutions such as the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) are crucial in overcoming Blockchain storage limitations. However, the assurance of data permanency in IPFS relies on the pinning of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Sid Lamichhane , Patrick Herbke

Interplanetary Filesystem (IPFS) is one of the largest peer-to-peer filesystems in operation. The network is the default storage layer for Web3 and is being presented as a solution to the centralization of the web. In this paper, we present…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Leonhard Balduf , Maciej Korczyński , Onur Ascigil , Navin V. Keizer , George Pavlou , Björn Scheuermann , Michał Król

The set of distributed ledger architectures known as blockchain is best known for cryptocurrency applications such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. These permissionless block chains are showing the potential to be disruptive to the financial…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Sara Rouhani , Luke Butterworth , Adam D. Simmons , Darryl G. Humphery , Ralph Deters

This paper studies known indexing structures from a new point of view: minimisation of data exchange between an IoT device acting as a blockchain client and the blockchain server running a protocol suite that includes two Guy Fawkes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Alex Shafarenko

In recent years, the term Metaverse emerged as one of the most compelling concepts, captivating the interest of international companies such as Tencent, ByteDance, Microsoft, and Facebook. These company recognized the Metaverse as a pivotal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Bingquan Jin , Hailu Kuang , Xiaoqi Li

This paper offers a prototype of a Hyperledger Fabric-IPFS based network architecture including a smart contract based encryption scheme that meant to improve the security of user's data that is being uploaded to the distributed ledger. A…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Ilya Grishkov , Roland Kromes , Thanassis Giannetsos , Kaitai Liang

This article proposes a blockchain-based file storage system that utilizes DNA encryption for enhanced security. The system utilizes blockchain technology to provide decentralized and tamper-proof file storage, while DNA encryption is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Onur Yıldırım

E-governance is a process that aims to enhance a government's ability to simplify all the processes that may involve government, citizens, businesses, and so on. The rapid evolution of digital technologies has often created the necessity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Owen Lo , William J. Buchanan , Sarwar Sayeed , Pavlos Papadopoulos , Nikolaos Pitropakis , Christos Chrysoulas

Federate learning can conduct machine learning as well as protect the privacy of self-owned training data on corresponding ends, instead of having to upload to a central trusted data aggregation server. In mobile scenarios, a centralized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Xiaohan Hao , Wei Ren , Ruoting Xiong , Xianghan Zheng , Tianqing Zhu , Neal N. Xiong

In this paper, we propose a certificate sharing system based on blockchain that gives students authority and control over their academic certificates. Our strategy involves developing blockchain-based NFT certifications that can be shared…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Prakhyat Khati , Ajay Kumar Shrestha , Julita Vassileva

Blockchain technology has emerged as a revolutionary tool in ensuring data integrity and security in digital transactions. However, the current approaches to data verification in blockchain systems, particularly in Ethereum, face challenges…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Oleksandr Kuznetsov , Alex Rusnak , Anton Yezhov , Dzianis Kanonik , Kateryna Kuznetsova , Stanislav Karashchuk

Merkle hash trees are the standard method to protect the integrity and freshness of stored data. However, hash trees introduce additional compute and I/O costs on the I/O critical path, and prior efforts have not fully characterized these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Quinn Burke , Ryan Sheatsley , Rachel King , Owen Hines , Michael Swift , Patrick McDaniel

While sharing files in a peer-to-peer (P2P) system significantly increases both the speed of retrieving the contents and the robustness of the system, tracing the access of files is not straightforward, even in the case of private P2P…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Uwe Roth

Blockchain is a decentralized ledger used to securely exchange digital currency, perform deals and transactions efficient manner, each user of the network has access to the least copy of the encrypted ledger so that they can validate a new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Bosubabu Sambana

The current Domain Name System (DNS), as a core infrastructure of the internet, exhibits several shortcomings: its centralized architecture leads to censorship risks and single points of failure, making domain name resolution vulnerable to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Guang Yang

IoT devices have been adopted widely in the last decade which enabled collection of various data from different environments. The collected data is crucial in certain applications where IoT devices generate data for critical infrastructure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Suat Mercan , Mumin Cebe , Ege Tekiner , Kemal Akkaya , Melissa Chang , Selcuk Uluagac

The most fundamental purpose of blockchain technology is to enable persistent, consistent, distributed storage of information. Increasingly common are authentication systems that leverage this property to allow users to carry their personal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Daniel Augot , Hervé Chabanne , Olivier Clémot , William George

The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) has been successfully established as the de facto standard for decentralized data storage in the emerging Web3. Despite its decentralized nature, IPFS nodes, as well as IPFS content providers, have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jan Matter , Muoi Tran

We propose in this paper BlockHouse, a decentralized/P2P storage system fully based on private blockchains. Each participant can rent his unused storage in order to host data of other members. This system uses a dual Smart Contract and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Doriane Perard , Lucas Gicquel , Jérôme Lacan