A blockchain based access control scheme

Maryline Laurent, Nesrine Kaaniche, Christian Le, Mathieu Vander Plaetse

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Abstract

Recent years have witnessed the trend of increasingly relying on remote and distributed infrastructures. This increased the number of reported incidents of security and privacy breaches, mainly due to the loss of data control. Towards these challenges, we propose a new access control scheme based on emerging blockchain infrastructures. Our approach relies on the use of smart auditable contracts deployed in blockchain infrastructures. Thus, it offers transparent and controlled access to outsourced data, such that malicious entities cannot process data without data owners’ authorization. In fact, the effectiveness of the authentication relies on the blockchain intrinsic properties. Moreover, an implementation of the proposed solution based on Ethereum Blockchain is presented to show the applicability of our scheme in real-world scenarios.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSECRYPT
EditorsPierangela Samarati, Mohammad S. Obaidat, Mohammad S. Obaidat
PublisherSciTePress
Pages168-176
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9789897583193
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event15th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications, ICETE 2018 - Porto, Portugal
Duration: 26 Jul 201828 Jul 2018

Publication series

NameICETE 2018 - Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications
Volume2

Conference

Conference15th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications, ICETE 2018
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityPorto
Period26/07/1828/07/18

Keywords

  • Access Control
  • Blockchain
  • Data Secrecy
  • Ethereum
  • Smart Contract

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