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Enhanced Hash Value and Public Key Infrastructure Generations for Blockchains Using Sooner Lightweight Cryptography

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Blockchain Applications in the Smart Era

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Blockchain technology (BT) uses strong cryptographic approaches to offer integrity to digital ledger systems by safeguarding them against data tampering on public channels in a trustless manner. BT concept has been deployed in cryptocurrency (or Bitcoin) to minimize double-spending. Confidentiality and privacy preservations continue to limit the benefits of BTs due to the openness of its transactions and publicly distributed ledger technology. To this time, anonymization and encryption-based mechanisms have been utilized to overcome these challenges. Particularly, BTs have the potentials to overcome the Internet of Things (IoT) privacy and security issues with the birth of BT-based IoT systems in recent times. These systems are less effective and less secure because large computations are involved during the forging of public key infrastructure (PKI), personally identifiable information (PII) is publicly available, and longer hash values are required, which are less supportive of real-time applications of resource-constrained devices. Consequently, a lightweight cryptosystem known as Sooner-C is proposed in this paper to reduce the complexity while improving the encryption and hashing used in BTs. The outcomes revealed that the proposed Sooner-C is more effective when compared to the traditional BT’s cryptosystem using encryption time (1672.2 secs to 18385.3 secs), decryption time (618.8 secs to 806 secs), ciphertext size (32-bits to 79-bits), and number of rounds (15 to 10), respectively. Therefore, it is recommended to offer privacy and integrity for blockchain-based applications by 61.21% (32-bits key size) to 38.79% (256-bits key size) as chances of breaking ciphertexts, hash values, and PKIs generated against traditional cryptosystems.

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    Abraham Ayegba Alfa

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    John Kolo Alhassan, Olayemi Mikail Olaniyi & Morufu Olalere

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Alfa, A.A., Alhassan, J.K., Olaniyi, O.M., Olalere, M. (2022). Enhanced Hash Value and Public Key Infrastructure Generations for Blockchains Using Sooner Lightweight Cryptography. In: Misra, S., Kumar Tyagi, A. (eds) Blockchain Applications in the Smart Era. EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89546-4_6

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