Cross-Department Secures Data Sharing in Food Industry via Blockchain-Cloud Fusion Scheme

Abstract

The barriers of food enterprises and departments caused information asymmetry, which is the root cause of food safety incidents. Simultaneously, it is challenging to solve the information asymmetry by the existing cloud-based food supply-chain regulation system. Establishing a secure and reliable data sharing environment is an effective solution to the information island. Blockchain can construct a security network based on mathematical algorithms, eliminating the third party’s potential security risk, and realize transparently share data. In this paper, on the principle of metadata remaining in the food enterprises, we propose a blockchain-cloud fusion scheme based on Decentralized Attribute-Based Signature (DABS) to realize secure data sharing between departments. It constructs a decentralized and trusting environment for data owners to share data and achieves social co-governance of food safety based on the smart contract. It can also preserve the existing system architecture and complement the performance disadvantage of blockchain and cloud storage. The result achieved from security analysis shows that our scheme supports unconditional full anonymity and can resist collusion attacks of N-1 out of N corrupted attribute authorities.