A blockchain is a distributed database shared among a computer network’s nodes. Distributed peer-to-peer architecture introduces major disruptions to traditional operations by decentralising governance by creating a secure design that does not require trusted third parties to establish transactional relationships between two parties. Blockchain provides trust between stakeholders and improves the reliability of data and the immutability of agreed transactions. By being decentralised, Blockchain is less vulnerable to attacks and helps to improve data privacy and pseudo-anonymity of participants. Blockchain technology ensures legal certainty via smart contracts and digital assets. As blockchain-based cross-border services proliferate, the importance of cybersecurity considerations within Blockchain Application Development will continue to increase.
Security Preservation in Blockchain ensures increased reliability, trustworthiness, and security of Blockchain technology, vital technological issues must be addressed, demonstrated and validated. Some of these include loopholes in mutual-trust building mechanisms through smart contracts, verification of resilient cryptographic implementations utilised in cryptocurrency wallets, privacy-protecting techniques for reliable user data transmission and management, analysis of the transaction-information hiding techniques, blockchain-based security designs leveraging provided properties and identity management within Self-sovereign Identity Framework and introduction of secure multiparty signatures (to mitigate the impact of supply-chain attacks and security bugs).
Strategic Priority
- Illustrate the state of the art use of blockchain in the vehicular communication environment.
- Develop building blocks for hardware wallets with multiparty computation (MPC).
- Demonstrate that blockchain can be used to manage traffic signals for emergency vehicles.
Pilot Research
- Secure consensus for Intelligent Vehicular Communication.
- Emergency Information transmission using blockchain in Intelligent Vehicular Communication.
- Blockchain-related operations are protected by cryptographic hardware with MPC.
Publications (View all)
DECEPTWIN: Proactive Security Approach for IoV by Leveraging Deception-based Digital Twins and Blockchain
Iqbal, M., Suhail, S., Matulevicius, R. (2024) Published in: Proceedings of…
The Power of Many: Securing Organisational Identity Through Distributed Key Management
Bakhtina, M., Kvapil, J., Švenda, P., and Matulevičius, R., (2024) Publishe…
CHESS: Cyber-security Excellence Hub in Estonia and South Moravia
Bakhtina, M., Vémolová, Z., and Matyáš, V., (2024). Published in: RPE@CAiSE…
The Adoption Rate of JavaCard Features by Certified Products and Open-Source Projects
Zaoral, L., Dufka, A., and Svenda, P., (2024). Published in: Smart Card Res…
A Decentralised Public Key Infrastructure for X-Road
Bakhtina, M., Leung, K. L., Matulevičius, R., Awad, A., Švenda, P. (2023). …
Theses (View all)
Digital Twin and Blockchain-Driven Firmware Updates for the Internet of Vehicles
Author: Edgar Miadzieles; Supervisor: Mubashar Iqbal
Blockchain and Digital Twin-based Approach for Securing Water Supply Infrastructure
Author: Ojus Virendra Tudavekar; Supervisor: Mubashar Iqbal
Analysis and Use of Standard Cryptographic Interfaces
Author: Kristián Mika; Supervisor: Antonín Dufka
Schnorr Multi-Signatures for Secure Devices with Restricted Interfaces
Author: Jakub-Janků Supervisor: Antonín Dufka
Detection of Bitcoin keys from hierarchical wallets generated using BIP32 with weak seed
Author: David Rajnoha; Supervisor: Petr Svenda
Harnessing Blockchain and Digital Twin for Security Risk Assessment in Internet of Vehicles
Author: Ashfaq Hussain Ahmed; Supervisors: Mubashar Iqbal, Sabah Suhail