Supply chain provenance with offline verification through a low-requirement, blockchain-based framework
by Tabish; Raisa Arief; Auqib Hamid Lone; Roohie Naaz Mir
International Journal of Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies (IJBC), Vol. 3, No. 1, 2022

Abstract: Blockchain proves to be an ideal candidate for establishing provenance in supply chains. For ensuring widespread adoption, such frameworks must have low cost-overheads while guaranteeing protection from counterfeiting and must provide end-to-end transparency. A vast majority of existing platforms that attempt to address the lack of provenance knowledge do so by relying on centralised architectures or through the use of high requirement hardware components. In this paper, we propose a robust and adaptable provenance framework running on the decentralised blockchain architecture, along with P2P based offline verification, to address the most common supply chain attacks. Minimal assumptions have been made about the hardware required for enforcing such a platform in general supply chains. The proposed system also allows fully off-chain verification of product attributes and semi-online verification of product ownership using cryptographic methods. This allows a decentralised and cryptographically secure flow of provenance knowledge in supply chains.

Online publication date: Thu, 19-May-2022

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