A blockchain-based transaction system for private data sharing and trading

To address the private data management problems and realize privacy-preserving data sharing,a blockchain-based transaction system named Ecare featuring information transparency,fairness and scalability is proposed.The proposed system formulates multiple private data access control strategies,and realizes data trading and sharing through on-chain transactions,which makes transaction records transparent and immutable.In our system,the private data are encrypted,and the role-based account model ensures that access to the data requires owner’s authorization.Moreover,a new consensus protocol named Proof of Transactions(PoT)proposed by ourselves has been used to improve consensus efficiency.The value of Ecare is not only that it aggregates telemedicine,data transactions,and other features,but also that it translates these actions into transaction events stored in the blockchain,making them transparent and immutable to all participants.The proposed system can be extended to more general big data privacy protection and data transaction scenarios.

A Private User Data Protection Mechanism in TrustZone Architecture Based on Identity Authentication

In Trust Zone architecture, the Trusted Application（TA） in the secure world does not certify the identity of Client Applications（CA） in the normal world that request data access, which represents a user data leakage risk. This paper proposes a private user data protection mechanism in Trust Zone to avoid such risks. We add corresponding modules to both the secure world and the normal world and authenticate the identity of CA to prevent illegal access to private user data. Then we analyze the system security, and perform validity and performance tests.The results show that this method can perform effective identity recognition and control of CA to protect the security of private user data. After adding authentication modules, the data operation time of system increases by about0.16 s, an acceptable price to pay for the improved security.

Secure Sensitive Data Sharing on a Big Data Platform

Users store vast amounts of sensitive data on a big data platform. Sharing sensitive data will help enterprises reduce the cost of providing users with personalized services and provide value-added data services.However, secure data sharing is problematic. This paper proposes a framework for secure sensitive data sharing on a big data platform, including secure data delivery, storage, usage, and destruction on a semi-trusted big data sharing platform. We present a proxy re-encryption algorithm based on heterogeneous ciphertext transformation and a user process protection method based on a virtual machine monitor, which provides support for the realization of system functions. The framework protects the security of users＇ sensitive data effectively and shares these data safely. At the same time, data owners retain complete control of their own data in a sound environment for modern Internet information security.