Ransomware as a Service using Smart Contracts and IPFS

GLASS: Towards Secure and Decentralized eGovernance Services using IPFS

The continuously advancing digitization has provided answers to the bureaucratic problems faced by eGovernance services. This innovation led them to an era of automation it has broadened the attack surface and made them a popular target for cyber attacks. eGovernance services utilize internet, which is currently a location addressed system where whoever controls the location controls not only the content itself, but the integrity of that content, and the access to that content. We propose GLASS, a decentralised solution which combines the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) with Distributed Ledg…

ID-based self-encryption via Hyperledger Fabric based smart contract

This paper offers a prototype of a Hyperledger Fabric-IPFS based network architecture including a smart contract based encryption scheme that meant to improve the security of user's data that is being uploaded to the distributed ledger. A new extension to the self-encryption scheme was deployed by integrating data owner's identity into the encryption process. Such integration allows to permanently preserve ownership of the original file and link it to the person/entity who originally uploaded it. Moreover, self-encryption provides strong security guarantees that decryption of a file is computa…

星际文件系统中的内容审查

Content Censorship in the InterPlanetary File System

本文揭示了 IPFS 中基于 Kademlia DHT 概念性缺陷的内容审查攻击，并提出检测与缓解机制，实现 99.6% 检测率和 100% 攻击缓解，已按负责任披露流程推进部署。

MTFS: Merkle-Tree-Based File System

The blockchain technology has been changing our daily lives since Bitcoin - i.e., the first decentralized cryptocurrency - was invented and released as open-source software by an unidentified person or a group called Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009. Of many applications which can be implemented based on the blockchain, storage is an important one, a notable example of which is the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS). IPFS is a distributed web based on a peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open and focuses on public accessible files. To provide a solution for private…

A Distributed Ledger Based Infrastructure for Smart Transportation System and Social Good

This paper presents a system architecture to promote the development of smart transportation systems. Thanks to the use of distributed ledgers and related technologies, it is possible to create, store and share data generated by users through their sensors, while moving. In particular, IOTA and IPFS are used to store and certify data (and their related metadata) coming from sensors or by the users themselves. Ethereum is exploited as the smart contract platform that coordinates the data sharing and provisioning. The necessary privacy guarantees are provided by the usage of Zero Knowledge Proof…

MOVO: a dApp for DLT-based Smart Mobility

Plenty of research on smart mobility is currently devoted to the inclusion of novel decentralized software architectures to these systems, due to the inherent advantages in terms of transparency, traceability, trustworthiness. MOVO is a decentralized application (dApp) for smart mobility. It includes: (i) a module for collecting data from vehicles and smartphones sensors; (ii) a component for interacting with Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) and Decentralized File Storages (DFS), for storing and validating sensor data; (iii) a module for "offline" interaction between devices. The dApp con…