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Towards Empowering Stakeholders Through Decentralized Trust and Secure Livestock Data Sharing

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Publicado en:Cryptography vol. 9, no. 3 (2025), p. 52-76
Autor principal: Ghafoor Abdul
Otros Autores: Symeonidis Iraklis, Rydberg, Anna, Lindahl, Cecilia, Abbasi Abdul Qadus
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MDPI AG
Materias:
Modularity
Principles
Livestock
Predictive analytics
Collaboration
Performance evaluation
Data exchange
Computer architecture
Edge computing
Information sharing
Privacy
Infrastructure
Access control
Consent
Data management
Farmers
Data integrity
Robust control
Open data
Consumers
Digital transformation
Decision making
Farms
Empowerment
Data transparency
Livestock industry
Supply chains
Data collection
Trust
Stakeholders
General Data Protection Regulation
Cybersecurity
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Resumen:Cybersecurity represents a critical challenge for data-sharing platforms involving multiple stakeholders, particularly within complex and decentralized systems such as livestock supply chain networks. These systems demand novel approaches, robust security protocols, and advanced data management strategies to address key challenges such as data consistency, transparency, ownership, controlled access or exposure, and privacy-preserving analytics for value-added services. In this paper, we introduced the Framework for Livestock Empowerment and Decentralized Secure Data eXchange (FLEX), as a comprehensive solution grounded on five core design principles: (i) enhanced security and privacy, (ii) human-centric approach, (iii) decentralized and trusted infrastructure, (iv) system resilience, and (v) seamless collaboration across the supply chain. FLEX integrates interdisciplinary innovations, leveraging decentralized infrastructure-based protocols to ensure trust, traceability, and integrity. It employs secure data-sharing protocols and cryptographic techniques to enable controlled information exchange with authorized entities. Additionally, the use of data anonymization techniques ensures privacy. FLEX is designed and implemented using a microservices architecture and edge computing to support modularity and scalable deployment. These components collectively serve as a foundational pillar of the development of a digital product passport. The FLEX architecture adopts a layered design and incorporates robust security controls to mitigate threats identified using the STRIDE threat modeling framework. The evaluation results demonstrate the framework’s effectiveness in countering well-known cyberattacks while fulfilling its intended objectives. The performance evaluation of the implementation further validates its feasibility and stability, particularly as the volume of evidence associated with animal identities increases. All the infrastructure components, along with detailed deployment instructions, are publicly available as open-source libraries on GitHub, promoting transparency and community-driven development for wider public benefit.
ISSN:2410-387X
DOI:10.3390/cryptography9030052
Fuente:Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database