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Decentralized Access Control Encryption in Public Blockchain

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Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems (BlockSys 2019)

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Since its invention, the public blockchain has attracted more attention from both the academia and industry because of its fully decentralization and persistency features. However, the privacy issue in public blockchain is still challengeable. While there exists privacy preservation mechanisms proposed for the public blockchain, almost all of them can only solve partial of the privacy issue, either user privacy or data privacy indeed, in it. In this work, we present a decentralized access control encryption scheme which ensures user and data privacy simultaneously in public blockchain. With our cryptographic solution, the validity of one specific transaction can be publicly verified, while its content can only be retrieved by its intended receivers. Moreover, the origin of this transaction cannot be identified by any participant except the receivers in the network. Our analysis shows that our solution is really suitable to deploy in public blockchain and is proven secure under mathematical assumptions.

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This work is supported by the Henan Key Laboratory of Network Cryptography Technology and the Henan High Education Key Project Foundational Research Plan, the project name is “The research on access control model of cloud-based medical data”, the project No. 19A520047.

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    Zhongyuan Yao, Heng Pan, Xueming Si & Weihua Zhu

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Yao, Z., Pan, H., Si, X., Zhu, W. (2020). Decentralized Access Control Encryption in Public Blockchain. In: Zheng, Z., Dai, HN., Tang, M., Chen, X. (eds) Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems. BlockSys 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1156. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2777-7_20

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