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With advancements in technology, personal computing devices are better adapted for and further integrated into people's lives and homes. The integration of technology into society also results in an increasing desire to control who and what…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Ali Raza , Lachlan Hardy , Erin Roehrer , Soonja Yeom , Byeong ho Kang

Data privacy refers to ensuring that users keep control over access to information, whereas data accessibility refers to ensuring that information access is unconstrained. Conflicts between privacy and accessibility of data are natural to…

Current architectures to validate, certify, and manage identity are based on centralised, top-down approaches that rely on trusted authorities and third-party operators. We approach the problem of digital identity starting from a human…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Geoff Goodell , Tomaso Aste

Blockchain is a linearly linked, distributed, and very robust data structure. Originally proposed as part of the Bitcoin distributed stack, it found a number of applications in a number of fields, most notably in smart contracts, social…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Georgios Drakopoulos , Michail Marountas , Xenophon Liapakis , Giannis Tzimas , Phivos Mylonas , Spyros Sioutas

Supply chain applications operate in a multi-stakeholder setting, demanding trust, provenance, and transparency. Blockchain technology provides mechanisms to establish a decentralized infrastructure involving multiple stakeholders. Such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Gowri Sankar Ramachandran , Sidra Malik , Shantanu Pal , Ali Dorri , Volkan Dedeoglu , Salil Kanhere , Raja Jurdak

Modern blockchain systems are a fresh look at the paradigm of distributed computing, applied under assumptions of large-scale public networks. They can be used to store and share information without a trusted central party. There has been…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Sara Cohen , Aviv Zohar

We propose a new free eCommerce platform with blockchains that allows customers to connect to the seller directly, share personal data without losing control and ownership of it and apply it to the domain of shopping cart. Our new platform…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Ajay Kumar Shrestha , Sandhya Joshi , Julita Vassileva

Bitcoin and Ethereum are novel mechanisms for decentralizing the concept of money and computation. Extending decentralization to the human identity concept, we can think of using blockchain for creating a list of verified human identities…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-21 MohammadJavad Hajialikhani , MohammadMahdi Jahanara

Blockchain has been emerging as a promising technology that could totally change the landscape of data security in the coming years, particularly for data access over Internet-of-Things and cloud servers. However, blockchain itself, though…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Bing Xu , Tobechukwu Agbele , Richard Jiang

Blockchain technologies provide excellent architectures and practical tools for securing and managing the sensitive and private data stored in biometric templates, but at a cost. We discuss opportunities and challenges in the integration of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Oscar Delgado-Mohatar , Julian Fierrez , Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez

Voting is a very important issue which can be beneficial in term of choosing the right leader in an election. A good leader can bring prosperity to a country and also can lead the country in the right direction every time. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Kazi Sadia , Md. Masuduzzaman , Rajib Kumar Paul , Anik Islam

Blockchain is an emerging technology that enables new forms of decentralized software architectures, where distributed components can reach agreements on shared system states without trusting a central integration point. Blockchain provides…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Xiwei Xu , Cesare Pautasso , Sin Kuang Lo , Liming Zhu , Qinghua Lu , Ingo Weber

The cybersecurity of modern systems has dramatically increased attention from both industrial and academia perspectives. In the recent era, the popularity of the blockchain-based system has traditionally been emergent among various…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Abdul Khalique Shaikh A. K. Al-Alawi , L. R. , Al-Busaidi , R. , Shaikh

Blockchain has attracted a broad range of interests from start-ups, enterprises and governments to build next generation applications in a decentralized manner. Similar to cloud platforms, a single blockchain-based system may need to serve…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Ingo Weber , Qinghua Lu , An Binh Tran , Amit Deshmukh , Marek Gorski , Markus Strazds

This paper presents DESTinE Block, a blockchain-based data storage framework designed for power systems and optimized for resource-constrained environments, including grid-edge devices such as single-board computers. The proposed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Khandaker Akramul Haque , Katherine R. Davis

Authentication with username and password is becoming an inconvenient process for the user. End users typically have little control over their personal privacy, and data breaches effecting millions of users have already happened several…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Zoltán András Lux , Dirk Thatmann , Sebastian Zickau , Felix Beierle

Recently, cybersecurity becomes more and more important due to the rapid development of Internet. However, existing methods are in reality highly sensitive to attacks and are far more vulnerable than expected, as they are lack of trustable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Yu Han , Zhongru Wang , Qiang Ruan , Binxing Fang

Blockchain is a type of decentralized distributed database. Unlike traditional relational database management systems, it does not require management or maintenance by a third party. All data management and update processes are open and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Jiaqi Huang , Yuanzheng Niu , Xiaoqi Li , Zongwei Li

This research proposes a decentralized and cryptographically secure framework to address the most acute issues of privacy, data security, and protection in the ecosystem of medical insurance claim processing. The scope of this study focuses…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Diya Mamoria , Harshit Jain , Aswani Kumar Cherukuri

With the introduction of the term blockchain in 2008, its interest has been increasing in the community since the idea was coined. The reason for this interest is because it provides anonymity, security and integrity without any central…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Zuhaib Akhtar