A Study on Application of Interplanetary File System

Biswas, A.; Sil, R.; Roy, A.

With the advancement of information and communication technology (ICT), people are exchanging sensitive information through open communication channel like Internet. This tendency of digital communication has increased exponentially during the days of global pandemic where people are forced to maintain social isolation to break the chain of coronavirus (COVID-19) transmission within the society. Moreover, renowned corporate entities have implemented Work From Home for employees to continue their regular functioning. As a result, adversaries have found ample scope to mount active and passive attacks over these huge digital traffic to compromise the integrity of an electronic mechanism and fulfill their ill intention. In this situation, it becomes pertinent to ensure information security by establishing privacy, integrity, non-repudiation and authentication (PINA) of electronic transaction. To fulfill this objective, in this paper, authors have implemented secured electronic file management using Interplanetary File System (IPFS) over banking and legal datasets. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.