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Casting a ballot from a phone or laptop sounds appealing, but only if voters can be confident their choice remains secret and results cannot be altered in the dark. This paper proposes a hybrid blockchain-based voting model that stores…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yousef Tahboub , Anthony Revilla , Jaydon Lynch , Greg Floyd

Blockchain is a disruptive technology that has been characterised to be the next big thing and has already gained a broad recognition by experts in diverse fields. In this paper, we consider possible use cases and applications of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Nicholas Kolokotronis , Konstantinos Limniotis , Stavros Shiaeles , Romain Griffiths

The amount of information generated grows as more and more sensor and IoT devices are deployed in smart cities. It is of utmost importance for us to consider the privacy data leakage and compromised identity from both outside adversaries…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Jerry Chien Lin Ho , Chi-Yi Lin

Blockchain technology has drawn attention fromvarious communities. The underlying consensus mechanism inBlockchain enables a myriad of applications for the integrityassurance of stored data. In this paper, we utilize Blockchaintechnology to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Dominik Danko , Suat Mercan , Mumin Cebe Kemal Akkaya

Zero-Knowledge Proof-of-Identity from trusted public certificates (e.g., national identity cards and/or ePassports; eSIM) is introduced here to permissionless blockchains in order to remove the inefficiencies of Sybil-resistant mechanisms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-17 David Cerezo Sánchez

Blockchain is a decentralized system that allows transaction transmission and storage according to the roles of the Consensus algorithm and Smart contracts. Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) consolidate the best characteristics of blockchain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Subhash Shankar Pandey , Tadasha Dash , Prasanta K. Panigrahi , Ahmed Farouk

With the purpose of defending against lateral movement in today's borderless networks, Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) adoption is gaining momentum. With a full scale ZTA implementation, it is unlikely that adversaries will be able to spread…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Lampis Alevizos , Vinh Thong Ta , Max Hashem Eiza

In tracing the (robotically automated) logistics of large quantities of goods, inexpensive passive RFID tags are preferred for cost reasons. Accordingly, security between such tags and readers have primarily been studied among many issues…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Hiroshi Watanabe , Kenji Saito , Satoshi Miyazaki , Toshiharu Okada , Hiroyuki Fukuyama , Tsuneo Kato , Katsuo Taniguchi

The blockchain technology enables mutually untrusting participants to reach consensus on the state of a distributed and decentralized ledger (called a blockchain) in a permissionless setting. The consensus protocol of the blockchain imposes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Chunpeng Ge , Siwei Sun , Pawel Szalachowski

The design of access control mechanisms for healthcare systems is challenging: it must strike the right balance between permissions and restrictions. In this work, we propose a novel approach that is based on the Blockchain technology for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Sergii Kushch , Silvio Ranise , Giada Sciarretta

An interesting research problem in our age of Big Data is that of determining provenance. Granular evaluation of provenance of physical goods--e.g. tracking ingredients of a pharmaceutical or demonstrating authenticity of luxury goods--has…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Henry M. Kim , Marek Laskowski

The educational system manages extensive documentation and paperwork, which can lead to human errors and sometimes abuse or fraud, such as the falsification of diplomas, certificates or other credentials. In fact, in the last years,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Gabriel Fernández-Blanco , Iván Froiz-Míguez , Paula Fraga-Lamas , Tiago M. Fernández-Caramés

Securing the traceability of products in the supply chain is an urgent issue. Recently, supply chain systems that use public blockchain (PBC) have been proposed. In these systems, PBC is used as a common database shared between supply chain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Takio Uesugi , Yoshinobu Shijo , Masayuki Murata

A non-interactive ZK (NIZK) proof enables verification of NP statements without revealing secrets about them. However, an adversary that obtains a NIZK proof may be able to clone this proof and distribute arbitrarily many copies of it to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Ruta Jawale , Dakshita Khurana

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

Digital transactions currently exceed trillions of dollars annually, yet traditional paper-based agreements remain a bottleneck for automation, enforceability, and dispute resolution. Natural language contracts introduce ambiguity, require…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-24 To-Wen Liu , Matthew Green

In database applications involving sensitive data, the dual imperatives of data confidentiality and provable query processing are important. This paper introduces PoneglyphDB, a database system that leverages non-interactive zero-knowledge…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Binbin Gu , Juncheng Fang , Faisal Nawab

COVID-19 is a severe global epidemic in human history. Even though there are particular medications and vaccines to curb the epidemic, tracing and isolating the infection source is the best option to slow the virus spread and reduce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Jinyue Song , Tianbo Gu , Zheng Fang , Xiaotao Feng , Yunjie Ge , Hao Fu , Pengfei Hu , Prasant Mohapatra

Training contemporary AI models requires investment in procuring learning data and computing resources, making the models intellectual property of the owners. Popular model watermarking solutions rely on key input triggers for detection;…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Nojan Sheybani , Zahra Ghodsi , Ritvik Kapila , Farinaz Koushanfar

With the increase of web users and applications with real time requests, the ability to identify, track and trace elements of a product as it moves in the supply chain is deemed necessary, and for many industries is even mandated by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Thomas Sermpinis , Christos Sermpinis