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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…

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Blockchain technology is an interlinked systematic chain of blocks that contains transaction history and other user data. It works under the principle of decentralized distributed digital ledger. This technology enables cryptographically…

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Blockchain offers an innovative approach to storing information, executing transactions, performing functions, and establishing trust in an open environment. Many consider blockchain as a technology breakthrough for cryptography and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Rui Zhang , Rui Xue , Ling Liu

Blockchain and smart contracts have garnered significant interest in recent years as the foundation of a decentralized, trustless digital ecosystem, thereby eliminating the need for traditional centralized authorities. Despite their central…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Nicolò Romandini , Carlo Mazzocca , Kai Otsuki , Rebecca Montanari

While the smart surveillance system enhanced by the Internet of Things (IoT) technology becomes an essential part of Smart Cities, it also brings new concerns in security of the data. Compared to the traditional surveillance systems that is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Deeraj Nagothu , Ronghua Xu , Seyed Yahya Nikouei , Yu Chen

With the advent of blockchain technologies, the idea of decentralized applications has gained traction. Smart contracts permit the implementation of application logic to foster distributed systems that are capable of removing…

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With the increase of the adoption of blockchain technology in providing decentralized solutions to various problems, smart contracts have become more popular to the point that billions of US Dollars are currently exchanged every day through…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Feng Mi , Chen Zhao , Zhuoyi Wang , Sadaf MD Halim , Xiaodi Li , Zhouxiang Wu , Latifur Khan , Bhavani Thuraisingham

The unique properties of blockchain enable central requirements of distributed secure logging: Immutability, integrity, and availability. Especially when providing transparency about data usages, a blockchain-based secure log can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Valentin Zieglmeier , Gabriel Loyola Daiqui

We propose a secure computation solution for blockchain networks. The correctness of computation is verifiable even under malicious majority condition using information-theoretic Message Authentication Code (MAC), and the privacy is…

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Crowd-sensing has emerged as a powerful data retrieval model, enabling diverse applications by leveraging active user participation. However, data availability and privacy concerns pose significant challenges. Traditional methods like data…

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Today's blockchains suffer from low throughput and high latency, which impedes their widespread adoption of more complex applications like smart contracts. In this paper, we propose a novel paradigm for smart contract execution. It…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Jian Liu , Peilun Li , Raymond~Cheng , N. Asokan , Dawn Song

The main aim of the paper is to create a trust and transparency in the food supply chain system, ensuring food safety for everyone with the help of Blockchain Technology. Food supply chain is the process of tracing a crop from the farmer or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Sudarssan N

The technological evolution brought by the Internet of things (IoT) comes with new forms of cyber-attacks exploiting the complexity and heterogeneity of IoT networks, as well as, the existence of many vulnerabilities in IoT devices. The…

Within a modern democratic nation, elections play a significant role in the nation's functioning. However, with the existing infrastructure for conducting elections using Electronic Voting Systems (EVMs), many loopholes exist, which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Arnab Mukherjee , Souvik Majumdar , Anup Kumar Kolya , Saborni Nandi

In the next few years, Blockchain will play a central role in IoT as a technology. It enables the traceability of processes between multiple parties independent of a central instance. Blockchain allows to make the processes more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Kirill Loisha , Javad Ghofrani , Dirk Reichelt

Service Level Agreements (SLA) are employed to ensure the performance of Cloud solutions. When a component fails, the importance of logs increases significantly. All departments may turn to logs to determine the cause of the issue and find…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-03 William Pourmajidi , Lei Zhang , John Steinbacher , Tony Erwin , Andriy Miranskyy

The concept of blockchain has emerged as an effective solution for data-sensitive domains, such as healthcare, financial services, etc., due to its various attributes like immutability, non-repudiation, and availability. Thus,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Shashank Joshi , Arhan Choudhury , Ojas Saraswat

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…

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The popularity and applicability of mobile crowdsensing applications are continuously increasing due to the widespread of mobile devices and their sensing and processing capabilities. However, we need to offer appropriate incentives to the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Dimitris Chatzopoulos , Sujit Gujar , Boi Faltings , Pan Hui

Blockchain technology promises to revolutionize manufacturing industries. For example, several supply-chain use-cases may benefit from transparent asset tracking and automated processes using smart contracts. Several real-world deployments…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Christina Müller , Marcus Brandenburger , Christian Cachin , Pascal Felber , Christian Göttel , Valerio Schiavoni