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Vol. 19 No. 1 (2023)

Published: June 30, 2023

Pages: 62-69

Original Article

Secure Electronic Healthcare Record based on Distributed Global Database and Schnorr Signcryption

Mohammad Fareed 1 Ali A Yassin
1Department of Computer Science, Education College for Pure Science, University of Basrah Basrah 61004, Iraq
History
  • Received: August 29, 2022
  • Revised: September 22, 2022
  • Accepted: September 25, 2022
  • Available Online: January 9, 2023
DOI

https://doi.org/10.37917/ijeee.19.1.8

Abstract

Preserving privacy and security plays a key role in allowing each component in the healthcare system to access control and gain privileges for services and resources. Over recent years, there have been several role-based access control and authentication schemes, but we noticed some drawbacks in target schemes such as failing to resist well-known attacks, leaking privacy-related information, and operational cost. To defeat the weakness, this paper proposes a secure electronic healthcare record scheme based on Schnorr Signcryption, crypto hash function, and Distributed Global Database (DGDB) for the healthcare system. Based on security theories and the Canetti-Krawczyk model (CK), we notice that the proposed scheme has suitable matrices such as scalability, privacy preservation, and mutual authentication. Furthermore, findings from comparisons with comparable schemes reveal that the suggested approach provides greater privacy and security characteristics than the other schemes and has enough efficiency in computational and communicational aspects.

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