A survey on redactable blockchain: challenges and opportunities

T Ye, M Luo, Y Yang, KKR Choo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While immutability is an important property of blockchain and can be utilized to build a
credible data publishing platform, the same property can also be abused to disseminate …

A transformative shift toward blockchain‐based IoT environments: Consensus, smart contracts, and future directions

C Trivedi, UP Rao, K Parmar… - Security and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Recently, Internet‐of‐Things (IoT) based applications have shifted from centralized
infrastructures to decentralized ecosystems, owing to user data's security and privacy …

Nano: Cryptographic enforcement of readability and editability governance in blockchain databases

C Zhang, M Zhao, J Liang, Q Fan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, increasing personal data has been stored in blockchain databases, ensuring data
integrity by consensus. Although transparent and immutable blockchains are mainly …

VRBC: A verifiable redactable blockchain with efficient query and integrity auditing

G Tian, J Wei, M Kutyłowski, W Susilo… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Driven by various legal obligations and service requirements, the redactable blockchain was
introduced to balance the modifiability and immutability of blockchain technology. However …

Accountable and fine-grained controllable rewriting in blockchains

S Xu, X Huang, J Yuan, Y Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Most blockchains are designed to be immutable such that an object, eg, a block or a
transaction, is persisted once it has been registered. However, blockchain immutability …

Wolverine: A scalable and transaction-consistent redactable permissionless blockchain

J Li, H Ma, J Wang, Z Song, W Xu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The immutability of blockchains is critical for cryptocurrencies, but an imperative need arises
for the redaction of on-chain data due to privacy-protecting laws like GPDR. Recently …

Decentralized policy-hidden fine-grained redaction in blockchain-based IoT systems

H Guo, X Tao, M Zhao, T Wu, C Zhang, J Xue, L Zhu - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Currently, decentralized redactable blockchains have been widely applied in IoT systems for
secure and controllable data management. Unfortunately, existing works ignore policy …

Redactable blockchain: Comprehensive review, mechanisms, challenges, open issues and future research directions

SM Abd Ali, MN Yusoff, HF Hasan - Future Internet, 2023 - mdpi.com
The continuous advancements of blockchain applications impose constant improvements on
their technical features. Particularly immutability, a highly secure blockchain attribute …

Blockchain-based efficient verifiable outsourced attribute-based encryption in cloud

Z Hou, J Ning, X Huang, S Xu, LY Zhang - Computer Standards & Interfaces, 2024 - Elsevier
Attribute-based encryption (ABE) has been widely applied in cloud services for access
control. However, a large number of pairing operations required for decryption affect the …

Redactable blockchain based on decentralized trapdoor verifiable delay functions

W Wang, L Wang, J Duan, X Tong… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Blockchain technology was originally designed to ensure data security and trustworthiness
through decentralization and immutability. However, in recent years, the misuse of …