TY - GEN
T1 - Leveraging Hyperledger Fabric for Criminal Evidence Integrity-Proofs
AU - Regueiro, Cristina
AU - Urquizu, Borja
AU - Barguilla, Xabier
AU - de Oña, Esteban Ruiz
AU - Ospina, Alejandra
AU - Gonzalez-Aguilera, Diego
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - Nowadays, digital evidence plays a significant role in criminal investigations due to the widespread use of technology in daily life. As in the case of physical evidence, digital evidence requires suitable and secure handling and storage processes to guarantee its integrity and be admissible in a court. This paper presents a blockchain-based integrity-proof system that leverages the security features of Hyperledger Fabric to enable secure and reliable evidence. This system also enhances the usability of the blockchain technology, allowing authorities with no technical knowledge to use it. The design and specific implementation are described in detail, resulting in a real prototype for a reliable, secure, and user-friendly criminal evidence integrity-proof system. This system has been successfully used in the analysis of car accidents, resulting in a very useful tool for securing car accident 3D reconstruction and energetic analysis.
AB - Nowadays, digital evidence plays a significant role in criminal investigations due to the widespread use of technology in daily life. As in the case of physical evidence, digital evidence requires suitable and secure handling and storage processes to guarantee its integrity and be admissible in a court. This paper presents a blockchain-based integrity-proof system that leverages the security features of Hyperledger Fabric to enable secure and reliable evidence. This system also enhances the usability of the blockchain technology, allowing authorities with no technical knowledge to use it. The design and specific implementation are described in detail, resulting in a real prototype for a reliable, secure, and user-friendly criminal evidence integrity-proof system. This system has been successfully used in the analysis of car accidents, resulting in a very useful tool for securing car accident 3D reconstruction and energetic analysis.
KW - Blockchain
KW - crime records
KW - evidence
KW - Hyperledger Fabric
KW - integrity
KW - transparency
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105000627403&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-81928-5_3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-81928-5_3
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:105000627403
SN - 9783031819278
T3 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems
SP - 23
EP - 33
BT - Blockchain and Applications, 6th International Congress
A2 - Prieto, Javier
A2 - Vargas, Rafael Pastor
A2 - Lage, Oscar
A2 - Machado, José Manuel
A2 - Bálint, Molnár
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 6th International Congress on Blockchain and Applications, BLOCKCHAIN 2024
Y2 - 26 June 2024 through 28 June 2024
ER -
