Most existing blockchain schemes are based on the design concept“openness and transparency”to realize data security,which usually require transaction data to be presented in the form of plaintext.However,it inevitab...Most existing blockchain schemes are based on the design concept“openness and transparency”to realize data security,which usually require transaction data to be presented in the form of plaintext.However,it inevitably brings the issues with respect to data privacy and operating performance.In this paper,we proposed a novel blockchain scheme called Cipherchain,which can process and maintain transaction data in the form of ciphertext while the characteristics of immutability and auditability are guaranteed.Specifically in our scheme,transactions can be encrypted locally based on a searchable encryption scheme called multi-user public key encryption with conjunctive keyword search(mPECK),and can be accessed by multiple specific participants after appended to the globally consistent distributed ledger.By introducing execution-consensus-update paradigm of transaction flow,Cipherchain cannot only make it possible for transaction data to exist in the form of ciphertext,but also guarantee the overall system performance not greatly affected by cryptographic operations and other local execution work.In addition,Cipherchain is a promising scheme to realize the technology combination of“blockchain+cloud computing”and“permissioned blockchain+public blockchain”.展开更多
基金This work is supported by the NSFC(Grant Nos.61671087,61962009,61003287)the Fok Ying Tong Education Foundation(Grant No.131067)+4 种基金the Major Scientific and Technological Special Project of Guizhou Province(Grant No.20183001)the Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Public Big Data(Grant No.2018BDKFJJ018)CCF-Tencent Open Fund WeBank Special Funding(CCF-WebankRAGR20180104)the High-quality and Cutting-edge Disciplines Construction Project for Universities in Beijing(Internet Information,Communication University of China)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities No.2019XD-A02.
文摘Most existing blockchain schemes are based on the design concept“openness and transparency”to realize data security,which usually require transaction data to be presented in the form of plaintext.However,it inevitably brings the issues with respect to data privacy and operating performance.In this paper,we proposed a novel blockchain scheme called Cipherchain,which can process and maintain transaction data in the form of ciphertext while the characteristics of immutability and auditability are guaranteed.Specifically in our scheme,transactions can be encrypted locally based on a searchable encryption scheme called multi-user public key encryption with conjunctive keyword search(mPECK),and can be accessed by multiple specific participants after appended to the globally consistent distributed ledger.By introducing execution-consensus-update paradigm of transaction flow,Cipherchain cannot only make it possible for transaction data to exist in the form of ciphertext,but also guarantee the overall system performance not greatly affected by cryptographic operations and other local execution work.In addition,Cipherchain is a promising scheme to realize the technology combination of“blockchain+cloud computing”and“permissioned blockchain+public blockchain”.
