Pujie Jing

With the rapid development of geological blockchains and Internet of Things-based data acquisition technologies, massive amounts of heterogeneous data are constantly emerging. However, this data is stored in a distributed manner across different organizational or business blockchains. Data sharing among multiple geological blockchains faces numerous challenges, either exposing sensitive data during verification or lacking effective authorization mechanisms. Therefore, how to achieve fine-grained access control and privacy protection across multiple blockchains has become a critical issue that must be addressed in geological data sharing. In this paper, we propose GeoCross, a cross-chain geological data sharing framework that enables fine-grained authorization management and privacy protection. First, GeoCross provides a hierarchical hybrid encryption mechanism that uses symmetric encryption for geological data protection and ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption to enable flexible cross-chain access policies. Second, we integrate a Groth16-based zero-knowledge proof mechanism, which allows a chain to verify the existence, integrity, and accessibility of off-chain data without revealing the content. Furthermore, we introduce a Reputation-based Non-interactive Relay node Selection protocol (RNRS), which enhances the trustworthiness and fairness of cross-chain routing. Finally, we implement GeoCross in a multi-chain Hyperledger Fabric environment and evaluate its performance under real-world workloads. Results show that Groth16 verification requires only three bilinear pairings, achieving a throughput of up to 390 tps on a single chain and 1550 tps in a concurrent multi-chain environment. Even with 50% malicious nodes, the RNRS protocol still maintains a success rate of over 91%. These results demonstrate that GeoCross provides an efficient and practical solution for secure and privacy-preserving cross-chain geological data sharing.

Blockchain database has been widely applied in various fields, providing a secure architecture for data storage and sharing. In blockchain databases, the use of sharding technology can enhance the system’s scalability and improve transactions in the network to be processed in parallel. However, when applying searchable encryption techniques to query encrypted data in sharding blockchains, frequent data access to different shards results in uneven load distribution, leading to hotspot issues and reducing system efficiency. To tackle the challenge, we present SDB, a scheme integrating searchable encryption with sharding technology to enhance the scalability of blockchain databases. Firstly, we introduce a two-stage sharding mechanism. It performs pre-sharding based on keywords, and then implements fine-grained dynamic adjustments through improved jump consistent hashing, effectively resolving the load imbalance problem. Secondly, we present a cross-shard query strategy based on encrypted indexes, which constructs verifiable indexes for encrypted data and converts user queries into a multiway query tree. This addresses the cross-shard query optimization problem in encrypted environments. Under the experiment and security analysis, SDB achieves efficient cross-shard queries with higher query performance and throughput, at least 30% and 20% higher than state-of-the-art scalable blockchain database schemes.

Logistics supply chain (LSC), a chain structure that integrates and coordinates all logistics transactions, has become an essential component of the modern logistics industry. By using blockchain, trusted logistics services enable participants to effectively record and track transactions during the logistics process. Current blockchain‐based LSC features distributed structure and data privacy requirements, hindering the supervision of logistics transactions. Leveraging emerging dual‐blockchain architecture to separate logistics transactions from supervision is a promising direction. However, the dual‐blockchain collaboration restricts supervision due to its cross‐chain privacy and efficiency. To address these issues, a logistics supply chain supervision scheme based on dual‐blockchain collaboration (DBC) is proposed. First, an independent supervision blockchain is constructed to balance the contradiction between distributed structure and supervision requirements. Second, two mechanisms are designed to enhance the privacy and performance of collaborative supervision. The hybrid access control mechanism enables fine‐grained supervision for different participants, and the aggregated transaction verification method supports efficient collaboration for logistics transactions. Security analysis and performance evaluation demonstrate the feasibility of DBC in enhancing the security and supervision of logistics data on the dual‐blockchain architecture. Experimental results show that the cross‐chain supervision overhead of DBC is reduced to of the baseline schemes.