Blockchain Technologies for Private Data Management in AmI Environments

Robles, Tomás; Sánchez-de-Rivera, Diego

doi:10.3390/proceedings2191230

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“…29 Moreover, mechanisms are required to automize the interaction between electronic devices and Blockchain networks, while addressing the challenges related to remote devices and public key infrastructure (PKIs). Some solutions based on homomorphic cryptography may be found, for ambient intelligence applications, 9 water management, 30 international commerce, 31 and domestic scenarios. 8 Other solutions based on physical unclonable functions have been reported.…”

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“…General privacy policies (contained in regulation) and user-defined privacy policies will be integrated into these SCs, enabling a PbD approach. Ambient intelligence devices and other similar components will be authorized to interact with these SCs 9 in order to automize data capture. Personal data will be stored in a trustworthy database, managed by the Blockchain network.…”

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Enabling trustworthy personal data protection in eHealth and well-being services through privacy-by-design

Robles

Bordel

Alcarria

et al. 2020

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks

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Users are each day more aware of their privacy and data protection. Although this problem is transversal to every digital service, it is especially relevant when critical and personal information is managed, as in eHealth and well-being services. During the last years, many different innovative services in this area have been proposed. However, data management challenges are still in need of a solution. In general, data are directly sent to services but no trustworthy instruments to recover these data or remove them from services are available. In this scheme, services become the users’ data owners although users keep the rights to access, modify, and be forgotten. Nevertheless, the adequate implementation of these rights is not guaranteed, as services use the received data with commercial purposes. In order to address and solve this situation, we propose a new trustworthy personal data protection mechanism for well-being services, based on privacy-by-design technologies. This new mechanism is based on Blockchain networks and indirection functions and tokens. Blockchain networks execute transparent smart contracts, where users’ rights are codified, and store the users’ personal data which are never sent or given to external services. Besides, permissions and privacy restrictions designed by users to be applied to their data and services consuming them are also implemented in these smart contracts. Finally, an experimental validation is also described to evaluate the Quality of Experience (in terms of user satisfaction) and Quality of Service (in terms of processing delay) compared to traditional service provision solutions.

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Enabling trustworthy personal data protection in eHealth and well-being services through privacy-by-design

Robles

Bordel

Alcarria

et al. 2020

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks

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“…Some of these techniques include blockchain, cloud computing, and general cryptographic techniques as earlier mentioned. Robles et al [38] combined the building features of blockchain technology to initiate and utilize a customer-focused data management system in AMI. Since blockchain is a decentralized public digital ledger for recording transactions that cannot be changed without changing all the subsequent blocks and the consensus of the network, access control, integrity, and authentication of the involved data were therefore guaranteed via blockchain [39,40] PUFs get easily denatured/altered in the presence of extreme temperatures [27] 2…”

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Privacy and security of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) data and network: a comprehensive review

Ajiboye,

Agyekum,

Frimpong

2024

J. Eng. Appl. Sci.

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The traditional electrical grid has to be digitally improved as digitalization and effective integration of renewable energy bring better efficiency, intelligence, and safety into the grid; hence, the transition from the traditional grid to a smart grid. A smart grid is a modernized and digitalized standard electrical infrastructure that has a key component known as the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI). AMI, also known as smart metering, is a key technological enabler of the smart grid that allows automatic collection and reporting of power-consumed data via two-way communication networks. However, the collected power consumption data is confidential; hence, its privacy must be maintained. Similarly, for the benefit of the smart grid to be consistently maximized, the AMI data and network security must always be intact despite the evolving threats and attacks targeted at it.This paper provides a comprehensive review of the existing vulnerabilities/attacks, security and privacy challenges associated with the smart metering data and network system, its open issues, and future direction. The major contributions of this review paper lie in the AMI vulnerabilities, AMI state-of-the-art security schemes with their pros and cons, its communication protocols analysis, and its emerging security measures. This gave enumerated recommendations for the efficiency improvement of AMI security in terms of its latency reduction while implementing efficient security measures in its future work.

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“…As stated, Ajao L. A, et al, use the SHA-1 hash algorithm-based blockchain, encrypting a distributed ledger database, while our proposed method uses RSA encryption, which is more efficient and reliable by combining the private key of the wallet's owner with the owner's DNA-based bio-cryptography in order to construct a strongly secured blockchain. [19] proposed a method using smart contracts with blockchain technology. A cryptographic mechanism is utilized in order to enable employees to manage the data needed for anti-money laundering (AML) measures (consisting of the analysis of the distributed ledger).…”

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A Secure Private Key Recovery Based on DNA Bio-Cryptography for Blockchain

Al-Karkhi

Hassan²,

Azeez³

2023

Iraqi Journal of Science

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The existence of the Internet, networking, and cloud computing support a wide range of new technologies. Blockchain is one of these technologies; this increases the interest of researchers who are concerned with providing a safe environment for the circulation of important information via the Internet. Maintaining solidity and integrity of a blockchain’s transactions is an important issue, which must always be borne in mind. Transactions in blockchain are based on use of public and private keys asymmetric cryptography. This work proposes usage of users’ DNA as a supporting technology for storing and recovering their keys in case those keys are lost — as an effective bio-cryptographic recovery method. The RSA private key is responsible for maintaining the authenticity of the blocks’ wallets throughout any transaction related to any block of the blockchain. This framework can be used for a wide range of applications such as student registration systems at universities: in order to prevent the forging of student graduation certificates. The experimental results demonstrated robustness of the proposed solution, using a number of key sizes. The effectiveness of our approach is compared to that of elliptic curve cryptography keys. Our approach shows that the security and authentication needed for blockchain technology can be accomplished using DNA combined with an RSA private key. On the other hand, the standard EC cryptography shows poor performance against our suggested method as demonstrated in the discussion section.

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Blockchain Technologies for Private Data Management in AmI Environments

Cited by 6 publications

References 10 publications

Enabling trustworthy personal data protection in eHealth and well-being services through privacy-by-design

Enabling trustworthy personal data protection in eHealth and well-being services through privacy-by-design

Privacy and security of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) data and network: a comprehensive review

A Secure Private Key Recovery Based on DNA Bio-Cryptography for Blockchain

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