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A blockchain-based secure storage and access control scheme for supply chain finance

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Supply chain finance (SCF) provides credit for small and medium-sized enterprises with low credit lines and small financing scales. The resulting financial credit data and related business transaction data are highly confidential and private. However, traditional SCF management schemes use third-party platforms and centralized designs that cannot achieve highly reliable secure storage and fine-grained access control. To address such a need, we propose Fabric-SCF, designing and implementing a Blockchain-based secure storage system by utilizing distributed consensus to realize data security, traceability, and immutability. The attribute-based access control model is deployed for access control, also utilizing smart contracts to define system processes and access policies to ensure the system’s efficient operation. To verify the performance of Fabric-SCF, two sets of simulation experiments are designed its effectiveness. Experimental results show that Fabric-SCF achieves dynamic and fine-grained access control while maintaining high throughput in a simulated real-world operating scenario.

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This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61873160, Grant 61672338, the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai under Grant 21ZR1426500 and Top-notch innovative program of Shanghai Maritime University under Grant 2021YBR007.

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    Dun Li, Noel Crespi & Roberto Minerva

  3. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Providence University, Taichung City, 43301, Taiwan

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Li, D., Han, D., Crespi, N. et al. A blockchain-based secure storage and access control scheme for supply chain finance. J Supercomput 79, 109–138 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-022-04655-5

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