GLASS: Towards Secure and Decentralized eGovernance Services using IPFS
This addresses security and decentralization issues for eGovernance systems, though it appears incremental as it combines existing technologies like IPFS and blockchain.
The paper tackles the security vulnerabilities in centralized eGovernance services by proposing GLASS, a decentralized solution that integrates IPFS with distributed ledger technology and smart contracts, and includes performance measurements of IPFS in a testbed environment.
The continuously advancing digitization has provided answers to the bureaucratic problems faced by eGovernance services. This innovation led them to an era of automation it has broadened the attack surface and made them a popular target for cyber attacks. eGovernance services utilize internet, which is currently a location addressed system where whoever controls the location controls not only the content itself, but the integrity of that content, and the access to that content. We propose GLASS, a decentralised solution which combines the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) with Distributed Ledger technology and Smart Contracts to secure EGovernance services. We also create a testbed environment where we measure the IPFS performance.