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• TITLE: Authoritative and Unbiased Responses to Geographic Queries

  AUTHORS: Mahalingam Ramkumar, Naresh Adhikari

  KEYWORDS: Authenticated Data Structures, Blockchain Ledger, Geographic Information Systems

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Information Security, Vol.13 No.3, June 30, 2022

  ABSTRACT: A protocol for processing geographic data is proposed to guarantee authoritative and unbiased responses to geographic queries, without the need to rely on trusted third parties. The integrity of the proposed authoritative and unbiased geographic services (AUGS) protocol is guaranteed by employing novel hash tree based authenticated data structures (ADS) in conjunction with a blockchain ledger. Hash tree based ADSes are used to incrementally compute a succinct dynamic commitments to AUGS data. A blockchain ledger is used to record 1) transactions that trigger updates to AUGS data, and 2) the updated cryptographic commitments to AUGS data. Untrusted service providers are required to provide verification objects (VOs) as proof-of-correctness of their responses to AUGS queries. Anyone with access to commitments in ledger entries can verify the proof.