GLASS: Towards Secure and Decentralized eGovernance Services using IPFS

Chrysoulas, Christos; Thomson, Amanda; Pitropakis, Nikolaos; Papadopoulos, Pavlos; Lo, Owen; Buchanan, William J; Domalis, George; Karacapilidis, Nikos; Tsakalidis, Dimitris; Tsolis, Dimitris

Abstract

The continuously advancing digitization has provided answers to the bureaucratic problems faced by eGovernance services. This innovation led them to an era of automation, broadened the attack surface and made them a popular target for cyber attacks. eGovernance services utilize the internet, which is a location addressed system in which whoever controls its location controls not only the content itself but also the integrity and the access of that content. We propose GLASS, a decentralized solution that combines the InterPlanetary File System with Distributed Ledger Technology and Smart Contracts to secure eGovernance services. We also created a testbed environment where we measure the system's performance.

Citation

Chrysoulas, C., Thomson, A., Pitropakis, N., Papadopoulos, P., Lo, O., Buchanan, W. J., …Tsolis, D. (2022). GLASS: Towards Secure and Decentralized eGovernance Services using IPFS. In Computer Security. ESORICS 2021 International Workshops. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95484-0_3

• Conference Name: 7th Workshop On The Security Of Industrial Control Systems & Of Cyber-Physical Systems (CyberICPS 2021). In Conjunction With ESORICS 2021
• Conference Location: Darmstadt, Germany
• Start Date: Oct 4, 2021
• End Date: Oct 8, 2021
• Acceptance Date: Sep 11, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Feb 8, 2022
• Publication Date: 2022
• Deposit Date: Oct 31, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 9, 2023
• Publisher: Springer
• Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Series Number: 13106
• Book Title: Computer Security. ESORICS 2021 International Workshops
• ISBN: 9783030954833; 9783030954840
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95484-0_3
• Keywords: eGovernance; Security; DLT; IPFS; DHT; Kademlia
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2817570
• Publisher URL: https://www.ds.unipi.gr/cybericps2021/