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TL;DR: A healthcare-data security prototype that borrows blockchain integrity structures without deploying a full blockchain network.
About This Document
S. Mary Helan Felista and M. Ganaga Durga propose ChaCha20 encryption on resource-limited medical devices, AES-based key protection at gateways, and elliptic-curve cryptography for key exchange and mutual authentication. A hash-linked storage structure with Merkle-tree verification checks cloud data integrity. The authors evaluate a Python prototype for latency, throughput, and verification overhead.
Why Bitcoin People May Care
The phrase blockchain-inspired matters here. The design borrows hash chaining and Merkle verification but explicitly avoids a full blockchain deployment. Bitcoin readers can use it as a concrete example of primitives escaping their original stack, while healthcare and IoT readers get a resource-conscious security architecture rather than another blockchain label pasted onto a database.
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Document Details
- Title: Lightweight Hybrid Encryption and Blockchain-Inspired Storage for IoMT Data
- Author / organization: S. Mary Helan Felista and M. Ganaga Durga
- Year: 2026
- Language: English
- Document type: Research paper
- Pages: 11
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