Secured information sharing in supply chain management: Modified data sanitization with optimal key generation via hybrid algorithm

Abstract

In the majority of commercial scenarios, supply chain management (SCM) is turning out to be a fundamental focus area. In SCM, a hopeful solution for secured information sharing (IS) is blockchain technology. Nevertheless, it is a bit crucial to maintain security at all levels of blockchain, and therefore private and public-key cryptography is often favored. This study improves the security and privacy of a suggested "blockchain assisted supply chain management (SCM)," in which "Modified Data Sanitization and Data Restoration" is performed with an ideal key generation technique to retain sensitive data in each block. The major challenge that must be overcome to make data transmission security is optimal key selection. Significantly, the proposed hybridized algorithm is used to generate the optimal key in both processes. The proposed hybrid model is known as Whale Updated Butterfly Optimization (WU-BO) and is a conceptual mixture of "Butterfly optimization algorithm (BOA) and Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA)."Eventually, the examination is performed for verifying the enhancement of the developed model.