A Secure Blockchain-Based Architecture for the COVID-19 Data Network

Authors

Darine Al-Mohtar, Amani Ramzi Daou, Nour El Madhoun, Rachad Maallawi

Where

2021 5th Cyber Security in Networking Conference (CSNet)

Type

inproceedings

Date

2021-10-01

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the world economy and mainly all activities where social distancing cannot be respected. In order to control this pandemic, screening tests such as PCR have become essential. For example, in the case of a trip, the traveler must carry out a PCR test within 72 hours before his departure and if he is not a carrier of the COVID-19, he can therefore travel by presenting, during check-in and boarding, the negative result sheet to the agent. The latter will then verify the presented sheet by trusting: (a) the medical biology laboratory, (b) the credibility of the traveler for not having changed the PCR result from "positive to negative". Therefore, this confidence and this verification are made without being based on any mechanism of security and integrity, despite the great importance of the PCR test results to control the COVID-19 pandemic. Consequently, we propose in this paper a blockchain-based decentralized trust architecture that aims to guarantee the integrityimmutability and traceability of COVID-19 test results. Our proposal also aims to ensure the interconnection between several organizations (airports, medical laboratoriescinemas, etc.) in order to access COVID-19 test results in a secure and decentralized manner.

Bibtex (lrde.bib)

@InProceedings{	  el-madhoune.21.csnet,
  author	= {Al-Mohtar, Darine and Daou, Amani Ramzi and Madhoun, Nour
		  El and Maallawi, Rachad},
  booktitle	= {2021 5th Cyber Security in Networking Conference (CSNet)},
  title		= {A Secure Blockchain-Based Architecture for the {COVID}-19
		  Data Network},
  year		= {2021},
  pages		= {1-5},
  abstract	= {The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the world economy and
		  mainly all activities where social distancing cannot be
		  respected. In order to control this pandemic, screening
		  tests such as PCR have become essential. For example, in
		  the case of a trip, the traveler must carry out a PCR test
		  within 72 hours before his departure and if he is not a
		  carrier of the COVID-19, he can therefore travel by
		  presenting, during check-in and boarding, the negative
		  result sheet to the agent. The latter will then verify the
		  presented sheet by trusting: (a) the medical biology
		  laboratory, (b) the credibility of the traveler for not
		  having changed the PCR result from "positive to negative".
		  Therefore, this confidence and this verification are made
		  without being based on any mechanism of security and
		  integrity, despite the great importance of the PCR test
		  results to control the COVID-19 pandemic. Consequently, we
		  propose in this paper a blockchain-based decentralized
		  trust architecture that aims to guarantee the integrity,
		  immutability and traceability of COVID-19 test results. Our
		  proposal also aims to ensure the interconnection between
		  several organizations (airports, medical laboratories,
		  cinemas, etc.) in order to access COVID-19 test results in
		  a secure and decentralized manner.},
  doi		= {10.1109/CSNet52717.2021.9614272},
  url		= {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9614272},
  issn		= {2768-0029},
  month		= oct
}