Implementacja cyfrowego Paszportu Szczepień COVID-19 bazującego na Blockchain chroniący prywatność

pol Article in Polish DOI: 10.14313/PAR_240/61

send Przemysław Pukocz AGH Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza, Katedra Automatyki i Robotyki, al. A. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków

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W pracy omówiono propozycję implementacji cyfrowego Paszportu Szczepień COVID-19, bazującego na Blockchain chroniącym prywatność. Od końca zeszłego roku, po rozpoczęciu szczepień przeciw COVID-19, toczy się intensywna dyskusja nad formą wprowadzenia takiego narzędzia oraz konsekwencjami jego wdrożenia. Ma ona miejsce w wielu krajach europejskich. Jednym z elementów tej dyskusji, były kwestie bezpieczeństwa i anonimowości weryfikowanych danych szczepionych osób w sposób masowy, w różnych obszarach funkcjonowania społeczeństwa. Zagadnienia te próbuje rozwiązać proponowany system cyfrowego Paszportu Szczepień. System ten wykorzystuje dwie główne metody: Blockchain i funkcje skrótu, które pozwalają na zachowanie bezpieczeństwa, prywatności, a zarazem anonimowości. Celem poprawienia intuicyjności oraz prostoty jego funkcjonowania, w procesie weryfikacji Paszportów zaproponowano technologię kodów QR. System został zaimplementowany i przetestowany w środowisku chmury obliczeniowej Amazon AWS. Zaproponowano architekturę referencyjną bazująca na Blockchain dla środowiska AWS, dedykowaną dużym i wymagającym rozwiązaniom aplikacyjnym Paszportu Szczepień. Dodatkowo środowisko chmury oferuje dostęp do wielu narzędzi, które wykorzystano w implementacji systemu, podnoszących w znaczny sposób bezpieczeństwo całego rozwiązania.

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Blockchain, chmura obliczeniowa, COVID-19, e-health, Paszport Szczepień, systemy wspomagania decyzji

Implementation of the Digital COVID-19 Vaccination Passport based on Blockchain Protecting Privacy

Abstract

The paper discusses proposals for implementing the COVID-19 digital Vaccination Passport based on Blockchain that protects privacy. Since the end of the last year, after the commencement of vaccination against COVID-19, there has been an intense discussion on the form of introducing such a tool and the consequences of its implementation. This discussion is taking place in many European countries. One element of this discussion was the safety and anonymity of the massively verified data of persons on vaccinations in various areas of society functioning. These issues are being resolved by the proposed digital Vaccination Passport system. This system uses two major methods: Blockchain and hash functions, which allow you to maintain security, privacy, and anonymity at the same time. To improve the intuitiveness and simplicity of the system operation, the QR code technology was proposed in the passport verification process. The system has been implemented and tested in the Amazon AWS cloud computing environment. A reference architecture based on Blockchain for the AWS environment was proposed, dedicated to large and demanding application solutions. In addition, the cloud environment offers access to many tools that were used in the system’s implementation, significantly increasing the security of the entire solution.

Keywords

Blockchain, cloud computing, COVID-19, decision support systems, e-health, Vaccination Passport

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