| Title | HERMS: A Hierarchical Electronic Records Management System Based on Blockchain with Distributed Key Generation |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2022 |
| Authors | Xu, Bo, Zhang, Xiaona, Cao, Heyang, Li, Yu, Wang, Li-Ping |
| Conference Name | 2022 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC) |
| Keywords | authentication, blockchain, blockchains, Costs, Distributed Key Generation, Electronic Records Management, Generators, Hierarchical Identity-Based Cryptosystem, Human Behavior, Key Management, Memory management, Metrics, Protocols, pubcrawl, Resiliency, Scalability, service computing |
| Abstract | In a traditional electronic records management system (ERMS), the legitimacy of the participants' identities is verified by Certificate Authority (CA) certifications. The authentication process is complicated and takes up lots of memory. To overcome this problem, we construct a hierarchical electronic records management system by using a Hierarchical Identity-Based Cryptosystem (HIBC) to replace CA. However, there exist the threats of malicious behavior from a private key generator (PKG) or an entity in the upper layer because the private keys are generated by a PKG or upper entity in HIBC. Thus, we adopt distributed key generation protocols in HIBC to avoid the threats. Finally, we use blockchain technology in our system to achieve decentralized management. |
| DOI | 10.1109/SCC55611.2022.00050 |
| Citation Key | xu_herms_2022 |
HERMS: A Hierarchical Electronic Records Management System Based on Blockchain with Distributed Key Generation