Attribute-based Multi-Signature and Encryption for EHR Management: A Blockchain-based Solution

Hao Guo, Wanxin Li, Ehsan Meamari, Chien Chung Shen, Mark Nejad

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Abstract

The global Electronic Health Record (EHR) market is growing dramatically and has already hit 31.5 billion in 2018. To safeguard the security of EHR data and privacy of patients, fine-grained information access and sharing mechanisms are essential for EHR management. This paper proposes a hybrid architecture of blockchain and edge nodes to facilitate EHR management. In this architecture, we utilize attribute-based multi-signature (ABMS) scheme to authenticate user's signatures without revealing the sensitive information and multi-authority attribute-based encryption (ABE) scheme to encrypt EHR data which is stored on the edge node. We develop the blockchain module on Hyperledger Fabric platform and the ABMS module on Hyperledger Ursa library. We measure the signing and verifying time of the ABMS scheme under different settings, and experiment with the authentication events and access activities which are logged as transactions in blockchain.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, ICBC 2020
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781728166803
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event2nd IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, ICBC 2020 - Virtual, Online, Canada
Duration: 2 May 20206 May 2020

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, ICBC 2020

Conference

Conference2nd IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, ICBC 2020
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVirtual, Online
Period2/05/206/05/20

Keywords

  • Attribute-based Encryption
  • Attribute-based Multi-Signature
  • Blockchain
  • Edge Node
  • Hyperledger Fabric
  • Hyperledger Ursa

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