Blockchain-Based Personal Identity Security
System
Jahangirabad Institute of Technology,
Barabanki Uttar Pradesh India
Project Guide - Mohammad Sadique Ansari
(Assistant Professor CSE Department)
dept. Computer Science Engineering
ABSTRACT—
Identity theft is the unauthorized
acquisition of another person’s
confidential information in order to
misuse it. Organizations and individuals
should exercise caution when it comes to
protecting their identities in order to
avoid fraud as a result of identity theft.
This information is freely available to
attackers in user profiles. Attackers use
this information to obtain additional
“In this paper, we have tried to provide
more security in the Blockchain-Based
Personal Identity Security System
project. After reading many research
papers related to the Blockchain-based
project, we believe that we have updated
and provided security in this project. In
all the remaining research papers,
identity has been managed by storing
data in a transparent platform in
blockchain technology. The self-
sovereign concept, which includes the
individual's consolidated digital identity
Keywords:— Personal Identity,
Encryption, Digital Identity, Smart
Contract.
1. INTRODUCTION –
In recent decades, it has been brought to
people’s attention that the Internet security
issue is crucial and challenging. Many
sensitive personal information is often
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information without raising suspicions
about a final attack, identity theft, or
fraud. Our blockchain based Personal
Identity Security System assists in
securely storing personal identity data
without fear of it being compromised or
lost. In this system, the admin can access
all the users and verify those accounts.
and verified attributes, enables the users
of data to exert their ownership and
gain insights from digital identity is
essential to achieve the privacy and
security of distributed digital identities.
It describes a novel approach to
building a decentralized transparent
immutable secure personal archive
management and service system. A
decentralized system has been created
along with which smart contracts and
cryptography techniques have been
used to provide further security.”
misused or leaked and financial assets are
hacked etc. These security events directly
or indirectly cause the economic losses for
the Internet users, even destroy the whole
Internet transaction environment. Thus,
how to manage an identity over the
Internet becomes an important problem for
both the Internet companies and academic
researchers. Many efforts have been taken
to seek effective approaches in protecting
the personal data security. However, the
personal data is traditionally stored in a
centralized server, which makes it possible
for hackers or attackers to achieve their
malicious goals by
possible to create and transfer values
without trusted medium on the Internet [8].
The biggest feature of the Blockchain is its
protecting identify management system.
Meanwhile, the users are able to store their
personal information in the Blockchain
without worrying about anyone to illegally
steal or modify their data, ensuring the
information security requirement of an
identity management. In this paper, we
propose an identity management system
based on the Blockchain technology. In
our model, we combine the identity
authentication technology and reputation
management together, then establish a
personal online reputation data file on the.
RELATED WORK
Blockchain Blockchain is a distributed
database system, which can also be treated
as a public ledge that is maintained by lots
stealing/misusing/manipulating these data
in this centralized server. In 2008, Satoshi
Nakamoto proposed the concept of Bitcoin
, where users trade freely on the Internet
without a credible/trusted third
party.Because the popularity and fast
development of Bitcoin, Blockchain that
the technology supports Bitcoin begins to
take the public attention. In other words,
the Bitcoin starts a new era for the
Blockchain technology [13], where it is
decentralization where the whole database
is maintained by all the nodes on the
network.
From the technical perspective, we store
personal identities and reputation
information in the blocks, a distributed
database system. Thus, there is no central
management organization in the system,
which ensures the system data be safe and
credible. From the management
perspective, the reputation of users are
constructed based on the process of
building the blocks, which is the first
attempt in the literature and points a new
direction for reputation management
systems based on the Blockchain.
of independent users . Once a transaction
is written in a block, the transaction data
has to be agreed by all the nodes in the
system and the data cannot be further
modified by any node. If the data in a
block on the chain is illegally changed, it
will affect the entire chain after this block
and other nodes will not acknowledge the
validity of the data on the chain Moreover,
all the system rules are public and
transparent, and are also agreed by all the
nodes. Each node holds the information
Ethereum and Smart Contract:
Ethereum is an open source Blockchain
project . It proposes a common Blockchain
solution that allows anyone to create a
distributed application based on
Blockchain. The biggest feature of the
Ethereum that it links the smart contract
and the Blockchain. A smart contract is a
numerally defined contract which is
similar to a traditional paper contract. A
smart contract specifies the participants,
the execution conditions, other detailed
transaction rules. The difference with the
traditional contract is that the smart
contract is completely controlled by the
computer program and does not depend on
any agency. Once the contract is deployed
on the chain, no individual node is able to
change it. Meanwhile, once the execution
conditions of the contract are satisfied, the
2. LITERATURE REVIEW
Blockchain
Blockchain technology in simple words is
a digital database where information or
data is stored in blocks that are linked
together to form a chain. This Blockchain
Tutorial covers all basic to advanced
topics of blockchain like cryptography,
Blockchain Algorithms, Blockchain
Architecture, Blockchain Security, Smart
Contracts, etc
Blockchain is a distributed digital ledger
of transactions. It changes the whole
concept of the transaction now we don’t
Smart Contract
abstraction of all the data stored in the
whole block based chain. In other words,
each node holds a copy of the database,
which guarantees that the database cannot
be manipulated by a single node
individually. The architecture of the blocks
in the form of a chain, linked by
cryptography hash, provides the promising
distributed security.
contract is automatically executed .
Therefore the projects based on the
Ethereum and smart contracts are
decentralized and credible in the
Blockchain. The data fingerprint on the
Blockchain is protected by a private key.
Only the users who hold the private key
can modify the data. OneName provides
an identity service that allows users to bind
their names and bitcoin addresses to social
accounts, which is equivalent to provide a
public Bitcoin address and digital
signature for each social account. The
Bitnation project allows users to register as
a Bitnation“Citizens” and get Bitnation’s
“World Citizen Identity Card”. With the
assigned citizenship, a user is able to
access the self-accredited services in the
Bitnation.
have any need for centralized authorities
to verify our transactions, blockchain
makes it decentralized and secure. The
security is maintained by cryptographic
processes performed by p2p users,
through the process called Data
mining Here are some important features
given below:
 Secure
 Transparent
 Tamper-proof
 Peer-to-peer transaction
The third-generation revolution of
blockchain broaden the application of
blockchain in various domain besides asset
management and cryptocurrency. The
complex applications can be controlled by
Background
In this project we have used Sha-256
algorithm for username, which will secure
the username and prevent it from being
hacked. Along with Sha-256, we have also
used salt, which works to further secure
Flow chart
3. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Before this system could be developed, a
literature survey was done to get a clear
framework through making a review. The
keywords used to search for papers from
2014 to 2022 were as follows: blockchain
identity, blockchain storage, smart
contracts, and security issues. After
The blockchain is a decentralized storage
system that stores data in a sequence of
blocks connected by cryptographic hashing
of previous blocks. In this project, the
front-end involves Html, CSS, and
JavaScript and the back-end involves PHP
MYADMIN The IDE used is Visual
Studio and the database is MSSQL. Our
blockchain-based Personal Identity
Security System assists in securely storing
personal identity data without fear of it
being compromised or lost.
smart contract by defining arbitrary rules.
The functions in Ethereum smart steps and
storage space. The gas cost is paid in
cryptocurrency called ether.
the username. Both of these algorithms are
concepts of cryptoAlong with this, private
key has also been used which is used to
secure the file with the help of the key
which will be of 6 digits
reading many research papers, we read
many concepts and we found that some
more concepts were lacking in this system
and by using these concepts, we can create
a more secure system. In the rest of the
research papers, the concept of blockchain
was mentioned.
“In this project we have used Sh-256
algorithm for username, which will
secure the username and prevent it
from being hacked. Along with Sh-256,
we have also used salt, which works to
further secure the username. Both of
these algorithms are concepts of
cryptoAlong with this, private key has
also been used which is used to secure
the file with the help of the key which
will be of 6 digits”.
 Fig.1Username(Sha-256 and Salt)
Sha-256 –
SHA-256 can help secure SSL/TLS
(Transport Layer Security) certificates by
creating a digital signature your device can
verify. For example, when a server
presents its TLS certificate to clients such
as web browsers, the client can then use
the corresponding public key to decrypt
and verify the signature.
SHA stands for Secure Hashing
Algorithm, and it is a family
of cryptographic hash functions developed
by the National Security Agency (NSA) in
the United States. A hash function, in
simple terms, is a mathematical algorithm
that takes an input (any data, like a
file or a password) and produces a fixed-
size string of characters, which is the hash
value or digest. But keep in mind that it is
not encryption. To know how they differ,
check our hashing vs
encryption comparison.
SHA-256 is the successor of SHA-1, a
widely popular algorithm in the past.
However, it has
since been deemed insecure due to
vulnerabilities discovered in its code. As
technology advanced and computing
power increased, it became easier for
attackers to exploit these weaknesses and
compromise the integrity of hashed data.
SHA-256 refers to the bit size of the hash
output. In other words, the resulting hash
value from SHA-256 is 256 bits long,
which provides a significantly larger
search space compared to its predecessor,
making it computationally infeasible to
reverse engineer the original input from
the hash value.
 Fig2.File Key Generator(Private Key)
Private key-
A private key, also known as a secret
key, is a mathematical key (kept secret
by the holder) used to create digital
signatures and, depending on the
algorithm, to decrypt messages or files
encrypted (for confidentiality) with the
corresponding public key.
Public Key: Public keys are designed to
be public. They can be freely given to
everyone or posted on the internet. By
using the public key, one can encrypt the
plain text message into the cipher text. It is
4. PROBLEM STATEMENT
Many different vulnerabilities hinder
traditional identity management
systems such as storing private
information in one place, easy targets
for hackers to break into and people not
having control over their data. This puts
people at risk for things like having
their identities stolen or someone else
also used to verify the sender
authentication. In simple words, one can
say that a public key is used for closing the
lock.
Private Key: The private key is totally
opposite of the public key. The private key
is always kept secret and never shared.
Using this key we decrypt cipher text
messages into plain text. In simple words,
one can say that the private key is used for
opening the lock.
gaining entry to personal records
without permission. Even though they
show promise, current blockchain-based
solutions for identity often encounter
scalability issues as well as the inability
to work with other systems’ data or
provide many useful functions. What is
required now is an urgently needed
robust decentralized user-centric
identity management system that would
use the security capabilities of
blockchain technology to solve these
weaknesses while giving individuals
5. IMPLEMENTATION
In our project based on privacy protection
using blockchain, step one is growing a
frontend interface and registration. We
prioritize growing a smooth and easy enjoy
for users to interact with our identification
control platform.
The interface is designed simply so users
can easily input private statistics like their
name, personal data and other
records/information.In order to ensure
integrity and security of person
information, we use SHA-256 encryption
set of rules. SHA-256 is a widely used
cryptographic hash feature recognized for
its robustness to crash attacks. We use
6. RESULT
The proposed system aims to provide more
secure and faster execution of identity
management in the blockchain. Therefore,
two metrics were used in this study to
evaluate the performance. The first metric
is the user identity verification time, while
7. ANALYSIS
Here, we analyse that our blockchain-
based personal identification safety model
is very effective that uses some key
concepts such as the SHA-256 algorithm,
hashing, and smart contracts.
Data Integrity and Security:
To ensure the integrity and data
protection, the use of SHA-256 algorithm
and hash is performed. Through
cryptographic hash, personal data is
converted into particular hash values. Our
more authority over their identification
and ensuring the integrity and
confidentiality of their
information/records.
SHA-256 to securely hash sensitive
statistics of the consumer earlier than
storing it in blockchain or off-chain
databases. Using hashing and other
encryption techniques, we prevent
unauthorized access to records and strong
personal facts.
Throughout the implementation phase, we
perform practices in protection necessities
to create a scalable and dependable tool.
By combining front-end layout with
encryption techniques together with SHA-
256 hashing, our intention is to supply a
best solution for person identity protection
on the blockchain.
the second is the efficiency of the
encryption algorithm. There will be some
problems due to multiple verification but
we will make more efforts to make this
system user-friendly.
analysis confirms that the SHA-256
concept gives strong safety. This feature
ensured that person identification records
remained personal and safeguarding from
unauthorized access.
Smart Contract Implementation:
The integration of contracts further
enhanced the safety and performance of
our model for personal identity. Our
analysis demonstrates that smart contracts
enabled unchangeable records of identity
verification transactions, that minimizes
the hazard of fraud.
In precise, our analysis shows the
effectiveness of taking benefit of SHA-256
8. CONCLUSION
In conclusion, our Blockchain-Powered
Personal Identity Security System gives
people more control and security over their
digital identities. By fixing problems in
traditional identity systems, we're making
the digital world safer and more secure for
everyone. The key blessings of
Blockchain-based Personal Identity
Security Systems encompass greater
security, privateness, transparency, and
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