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Title: SmartProvenance: A Distributed, Blockchain Based DataProvenance System
Blockchain technology has evolved from being an immutable ledger of transactions for cryptocurrencies to a programmable interactive environment for building distributed reliable applications. Although the blockchain technology has been used to address various challenges, to our knowledge none of the previous work focused on using Blockchain to develop a secure and immutable scientific data provenance management framework that automatically verifies the provenance records. In this work, we leverage Blockchain as a platform to facilitate trustworthy data provenance collection, verification, and management. The developed system utilizes smart contracts and open provenance model (OPM) to record immutable data trails. We show that our proposed framework can securely capture and validate provenance data that prevents any malicious modification to the captured data as long as the majority of the participants are honest.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1633331
PAR ID:
10073922
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
CODASPY '18 Proceedings of the Eighth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy
Page Range / eLocation ID:
35 to 42
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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