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A RESTful Privacy-Aware and Mutable Decentralized Ledger

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During the last decade, blockchain technology has gained massive attention due to its decentralized, transparent, and verifiable features. However, data stored on the blockchain is publicly available, immutable, and may link to the data owner, thus making privacy management and data modification major challenges. In this paper, we present a RESTful decentralized storage framework that provides data privacy and mutability. To do so, it combines blockchain with distributed hash table, role-based access control, ring signature, and multiple encryption mechanisms. We designed a protocol that exploits metadata and pointers stored on the blockchain, while corresponding encrypted data are stored off-chain, so that data owners are able to control their data. Each peer in our framework offers RESTful APIs to operate, thus ensuring interoperability over the Web. In this paper, we present the operation of our framework and its components that enable data protection at run-time. We also evaluate its performance with time measurements from our proof-of-concept implementation.

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Notes

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    Except the first block called genesis block.

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    Please note that the registry server can easily be replaced by a decentralized discovery protocol like Chord4S [4].

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    Except the end client that has read-only access.

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    https://github.com/satwikkansal/python_blockchain_app/tree/ibm_blockchain_post.

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    https://github.com/bmuller/kademlia.

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Acknowledgment

The authors gratefully acknowledge the European Commission for funding the InnoRenew project (Grant Agreement #739574) under the Horizon2020 Widespread-Teaming program and the Republic of Slovenia (Investment funding of the Republic of Slovenia and the European Regional Development Fund). They also acknowledge the Slovenian Research Agency ARRS for funding the project J2-2504.

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  1. Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technology, University of Primorska, Glagoljaška ulica 8, 6000, Koper, Slovenia

    Sidra Aslam & Michael Mrissa

  2. InnoRenew CoE, Livade 6, 6310, Izola, Slovenia

    Sidra Aslam & Michael Mrissa

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Aslam, S., Mrissa, M. (2021). A RESTful Privacy-Aware and Mutable Decentralized Ledger. In: Bellatreche, L., et al. New Trends in Database and Information Systems. ADBIS 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1450. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85082-1_18

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