A Blockchain-Based Supervision Data Security Sharing Framework

Abstract

Ensuring trust, security, and privacy among all participating parties in the process of sharing supervision data is crucial for engineering quality and safety. However, the current centralized architecture platforms that are commonly used for engineering supervision data have problems such as low data sharing and high centralization. A blockchain-based framework for the secure sharing of engineering supervision data is proposed by utilizing the tamper-proof, decentralized, and traceable characteristics of blockchain. The secure storage of supervision data is achieved by combining it with the IPFS (InterPlanetary File System), reducing the storage pressure of on-chain data. Additionally, a fast data retrieval framework is designed based on the storage characteristics of supervision data. Then, CP-ABE (Ciphertext Policy Attribute Based Encryption) is combined with a data storage framework to ensure the privacy, security, and reliability of supervisory data during the sharing process. Finally, smart contracts are designed under the designed framework to ensure the automatic and trustworthy execution of access control processes. The analysis and evaluation results of the security, encryption and decryption, and cost performance of the proposed blockchain framework show that the encryption and decryption time is completed within 0.1 s, the Gas cost is within the normal consumption range, and the time cost of smart contract invocation does not exceed 5 s, demonstrating good availability and reusability of the method proposed in this article.