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Currently there exist many blockchains with weak trust guarantees, limiting applications and participation. Existing solutions to boost the trust using a stronger blockchain, e.g., via checkpointing, requires the weaker blockchain to give…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Peiyao Sheng , Xuechao Wang , Sreeram Kannan , Kartik Nayak , Pramod Viswanath

There has been increasing interest in the potential of blockchain in enhancing the security of devices and systems, such as Internet of Things (IoT). In this paper, we present a blockchain-based IoT security architecture, IoTchain. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Zijian Bao , Wenbo Shi , Debiao He , Kim-Kwang Raymond Chood

There has been considerable advancement in the use of blockchain for trust management in large-scale dynamic systems. In such systems, blockchain is mainly used to store the trust score or trust-related information of interactions among the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Shantanu Pal , Ambrose Hill , Tahiry Rabehaja , Michael Hitchens

Owing to some special characteristics and features, blockchain is a very useful technique that can securely organize diverse devices in a smart city. It finds wide applications, especially in distributed environments, where entities such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Jiahui Chen , Wensheng Gan , Muchuang Hu , Chien-Ming Chen

With the number of connected smart devices expected to constantly grow in the next years, Internet of Things (IoT) solutions are experimenting a booming demand to make data collection and processing easier. The ability of IoT appliances to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Marco Arazzi , Serena Nicolazzo , Antonino Nocera

Blockchain technology has emerged as a transformative tool for data management in a variety of industries, including fintech, research and healthcare. We have developed a workable blockchain based system that utilizes non fungible tokens…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Prakhyat Khati , Ajay Kumar Shrestha , Julita Vassileva

Blockchain technology introduces asset types and custody mechanisms that fundamentally break traditional financial auditing paradigms. This paper presents an autoethnographic analysis of cryptoasset auditing challenges, build on top of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Shayan Eskandari , Leid Zejnilovic , Jeremy Clark

The Internet of Things (IoT) has become a guiding technology behind automation and smart computing. One of the major concerns with the IoT systems is the lack of privacy and security preserving schemes for controlling access and ensuring…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Sreelakshmi K. K. , Ashutosh Bhatia , Ankit Agrawal

With the rapid development of the Internet of things (IoT), more and more IoT devices are connected and communicate frequently. In this background, the traditional centralized security architecture of IoT will be limited in terms of data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Ziqing Guo , Hua Zhang , Xin Zhang , Zhengping Jin , Qiaoyan Wen

Modern distributed applications in healthcare, supply chain, and the Internet of Things handle a large amount of data in a diverse application setting with multiple stakeholders. Such applications leverage advanced artificial intelligence…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Rodrigo Dutra Garcia , Gowri Ramachandran , Kealan Dunnett , Raja Jurdak , Caetano Ranieri , Bhaskar Krishnamachari , Jo Ueyama

The design of permissioned blockchains places an access control requirement for members to read, access, and write information over the blockchains. In this paper, we study a hierarchical scenario to include three types of participants:…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Hongyin Chen , Zhaohua Chen , Yukun Cheng , Xiaotie Deng , Wenhan Huang , Jichen Li , Hongyi Ling , Mengqian Zhang

Due to the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT), a massive number of devices are connected to the Internet. For these distributed devices in IoT networks, how to ensure their security and privacy becomes a significant challenge.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Hongxin Wei , Wei Feng , Yunfei Chen , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Ning Ge

The CTI (Cyber Threat Intelligence) sharing and exchange is an effective method to improve the responsiveness of the protection party. Blockchain technology enables sharing collaboration consortium to conduct a trusted CTI sharing and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Zhang Xiaohui , Miao Xianghua

Internet of Things (IoT) occupies a vital aspect of our everyday lives. IoT networks composed of smart-devices which communicate and transfer the information without the physical intervention of humans. Due to such proliferation and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Jawad Ali , Ahmad Shahrafidz Khalid , Eiad Yafi , Shahrulniza Musa , Waqas Ahmed

Blockchain has become particularly popular due to its promise to support business-critical services in very different domains (e.g., retail, supply chains, healthcare). Blockchain systems rely on complex middleware, like Ethereum or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Ákos Hajdu , Naghmeh Ivaki , Imre Kocsis , Attila Klenik , László Gönczy , Nuno Laranjeiro , Henrique Madeira , András Pataricza

A smart contract that is deployed to a blockchain system like Ethereum is, under reasonable circumstances, expected to be immutable and tamper-proof. This is both a feature (promoting integrity and transparency) and a bug (preventing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Mehdi Salehi , Jeremy Clark , Mohammad Mannan

Blockchain has been praised for its capacity to hold data in a decentralized and tamper-proof way. It also supports the execution of code through blockchain's smart contracts, adding automation of actions to the network with high…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Nicolas Six , Claudia Negri Ribalta , Nicolas Herbaut , Camille Salinesi

The growing complexity of Internet of Things (IoT) environments, particularly in cross-domain data sharing, presents significant security challenges. Existing data-sharing schemes often rely on computationally expensive cryptographic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Kexian Liu , Jianfeng Guan , Xiaolong Hu , Jianli Liu , Hongke Zhang

This paper addresses the critical challenge of access control in modern supply chains, which operate across multiple independent and competing organizations. Existing access control is static and centralized, unable to adapt to insider…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Sadegh Sohani , Salar Ghazi , Farnaz Kamranfar , Sahar Pilehvar Moakhar , Mohammad Allahbakhsh , Haleh Amintoosi , Kaiwen Zhang

The emerging Internet of Things (IoT) is facing significant scalability and security challenges. On the one hand, IoT devices are "weak" and need external assistance. Edge computing provides a promising direction addressing the deficiency…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Jianli Pan , Jianyu Wang , Austin Hester , Ismail Alqerm , Yuanni Liu , Ying Zhao