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Secure Interoperation of Blockchain and IPFS Through Client Application Enabled by CP-ABE

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Abstract

In recent years, personal health data can be collected via wearable devices and sensors and used for healthcare services improvement through data sharing. To share sensitive personal health data securely, many frameworks and approaches using blockchain-based systems have been proposed. However, the issue of letting individuals control and manage their data with privacy-preserving is still to be solved. In this paper, we propose a new model of Individual-Initiated Auditable Access Control (IIAAC) enabled with blockchain, CP-ABE (Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption) and IPFS (Inter-Planetary File System) for privacy-preserved data sharing. We describe the system architecture, its main components for our proposed model, and the protocols to make blockchain and IPFS interoperate with each other via a client application, including key generation, data publication, and data retrieval. We further build an experiment environment to evaluate the performance of our proposed model and architecture. Experiment results demonstrate the feasibility of our proposed model and system architecture for privacy-preserved data sharing.

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Acknowledgement

The work was supported in part by 2020-2021 Waseda University-NICT Matching Funds Program, 2020-2021 Waseda University Grants for Special Research Projects (Nos. 2020C-385, 2020R-056 and 2021C-292), 2020-2025 JSPS A3 Foresight Program (Grant No. JPJSA3F20200001), and 2021 Waseda University Advanced Research Center for Human Sciences Project (Support for Formation of Research Center of Excellence).

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  1. Graduate School of Human Sciences, Waseda University, Tokorozawa, Japan

    Ruichen Cong, Yixiao Liu & Yenjou Wang

  2. Department of Information and Network Science, Chiba Institute of Technology, Narashino, Japan

    Kiichi Tago

  3. Faculty of Electrical, Information and Communication Engineering, Institute of Science and Engineering, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan

    Ruidong Li

  4. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Tokyo, Japan

    Hitoshi Asaeda

  5. Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University, Tokorozawa, Japan

    Qun Jin

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Cong, R. et al. (2022). Secure Interoperation of Blockchain and IPFS Through Client Application Enabled by CP-ABE. In: Moallem, A. (eds) HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13333. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05563-8_3

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