Secure Smart Contract-Based Data Aggregation using Homomorphic Encryption
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Abstract
Privacy and security are important topics in data aggregation, as companies are aggregating large amounts of sensitive data from their users. The aim of this paper is to improve the security and privacy of data aggregation using smart contracts, homomorphic encryption and post-quantum encryption methods on Hyperledger Fabric. After a literature study, the protocol discussed in \cite{Regueiro2021} was taken as the starting point for an adapted protocol. The adapted protocol is implemented and tested on performance and the security is discussed. The protocol is improved in terms of security by resolving or lowering the chance of security flaws that were present in the protocol in \cite{Regueiro2021}, and introducing post-quantum encryption. However, the adapted protocol in its current implementation is not scalable.