Privacy-Preserving Educational Credentials Sharing Based on Blockchain and Proxy Re-Encryption

Dongkun Hou; Jieming Ma; Zitian Peng; Jie Zhang; Xiaohui Zhu

doi:10.1007/978-981-99-2443-1_10

Privacy-Preserving Educational Credentials Sharing Based on Blockchain and Proxy Re-Encryption

Dongkun Hou^*, Jieming Ma, Zitian Peng, Jie Zhang, Xiaohui Zhu

^*Corresponding author for this work

Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Research output: Chapter in Book or Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Proceeding › peer-review

Abstract

The educational credential is an important reference for enterprises to screen students. However, the educational credentials are normally stored in a centralized cloud server with improper maintenance and inadequate supervision, and students’ credentials are easily tampered with by server administrators. In addition, students’ credentials are also sensitive information and therefore need to be encrypted and stored in the cloud server, but traditional encryption schemes face challenges because of private key sharing. The paper designs a privacy-preserving educational credentials sharing scheme based on blockchain and proxy re-encryption. The proposed approach addresses the problems of centralized storage and encryption sharing. Students’ sensitive information is encrypted and stored in a cloud server, and the hash index is stored in a blockchain. Enterprise is able to match students’ public information and request private credentials by proxy re-encryption. We also realize the prototype of the system and evaluate the performance of the encryption scheme.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Computer Science and Education - 17th International Conference, ICCSE 2022, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Wenxing Hong, Yang Weng
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	119-130
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9789819924424
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2443-1_10
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	17th International Conference on Computer Science and Education, ICCSE 2022 - Ningbo, China Duration: 18 Aug 2022 → 21 Aug 2022

Publication series

Name	Communications in Computer and Information Science
Volume	1811 CCIS
ISSN (Print)	1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)	1865-0937

Conference

Conference	17th International Conference on Computer Science and Education, ICCSE 2022
Country/Territory	China
City	Ningbo
Period	18/08/22 → 21/08/22

Keywords

Blockchain
Data Sharing
Educational Credential
Privacy Preservation
Proxy Re-Encryption

Access to Document

10.1007/978-981-99-2443-1_10

Cite this

Hou, D., Ma, J., Peng, Z., Zhang, J., & Zhu, X. (2023). Privacy-Preserving Educational Credentials Sharing Based on Blockchain and Proxy Re-Encryption. In W. Hong, & Y. Weng (Eds.), Computer Science and Education - 17th International Conference, ICCSE 2022, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 119-130). (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 1811 CCIS). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2443-1_10

Hou, Dongkun ; Ma, Jieming ; Peng, Zitian et al. / Privacy-Preserving Educational Credentials Sharing Based on Blockchain and Proxy Re-Encryption. Computer Science and Education - 17th International Conference, ICCSE 2022, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Wenxing Hong ; Yang Weng. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023. pp. 119-130 (Communications in Computer and Information Science).

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Hou, D, Ma, J, Peng, Z, Zhang, J & Zhu, X 2023, Privacy-Preserving Educational Credentials Sharing Based on Blockchain and Proxy Re-Encryption. in W Hong & Y Weng (eds), Computer Science and Education - 17th International Conference, ICCSE 2022, Revised Selected Papers. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 1811 CCIS, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 119-130, 17th International Conference on Computer Science and Education, ICCSE 2022, Ningbo, China, 18/08/22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2443-1_10

Privacy-Preserving Educational Credentials Sharing Based on Blockchain and Proxy Re-Encryption. / Hou, Dongkun; Ma, Jieming; Peng, Zitian et al.
Computer Science and Education - 17th International Conference, ICCSE 2022, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Wenxing Hong; Yang Weng. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023. p. 119-130 (Communications in Computer and Information Science; Vol. 1811 CCIS).

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