SmartCoAuth: Smart-Contract privacy preservation mechanism on querying sensitive records in the cloud
Muhammed Siraj, Mohd. Izuan Hafez Hj. Ninggal, Nur Izura Udzir,, Muhammad Daniel Hafiz Abdullah, Aziah Asmawi

TL;DR
This paper introduces SmartCoAuth, a blockchain-based framework utilizing Ethereum smart contracts to enhance privacy, security, and auditability of sensitive cloud-stored records like healthcare data.
Contribution
The paper presents a novel blockchain-based framework, SmartCoAuth, for privacy-preserving access control and auditing of sensitive records in cloud environments.
Findings
SmartCoAuth achieves secure, decentralized access control.
The framework enables tamper-proof auditing of record access.
It maintains a balance between data utility and privacy.
Abstract
Sensitive records stored in the cloud such as healthcare records, private conversation and credit card information are targets of hackers and privacy abuse. Current information and record management systems have difficulties achieving privacy protection of such sensitive records in a secure, transparent, decentralized and trustless environment. The Blockchain technology is a nascent and a promising technology that facilitates data sharing and access in a secure, decentralized and trustless environment. The technology enables the use of smart contracts that can be leveraged to complement existing traditional systems to achieve security objectives that were never possible before. In this paper, we propose a framework based on Blockchain technology to enable privacy-preservation in a secured, decentralized, transparent and trustless environment. We name our framework SmartCoAuth. It is…
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Taxonomy
TopicsBlockchain Technology Applications and Security · Cryptography and Data Security · Cloud Data Security Solutions
