BSHILD Blockchain Based Security for Instant Live Discussion
Rupsingh Mathwale, Ankush D. Sawarkar · 2024
In the present-day digital world, instant messaging applications have found enormous popularity. There are, on the other hand, also some structured messaging services that have improved the ease of communication tremendously. In a business environment, for instance, the use of these platforms might involve the sharing of a lot of information, which can at times be very sensitive. As a result, safeguarding the messages becomes very imperative. Thus, to fulfil the security concerns of workplace interactions, such messaging systems ought to be able to provide some degree of security guarantee. Some of them include but are not limited to; immutability whereby once sent, a message cannot be altered in any other way; availability, that is, the users are able to have access to the means of communication as and when they wish to; and lastly, non-repudiation that assures the message sender of the recipient's identity as well as the time a message was sent and received. Cryptographic features of the distributed ledger technology known as blockchain are utilized in digital currencies, bitcoin, and Ethereum, among others. Therefore, with the features of security that come along with blockchain technology, organizations can also increase the security of their messaging systems. Herein we introduce Blockchain Based Security for Instant Live Discussions, a communications solution aptly developed to satisfy business communication needs. BSHILD is focused on offering a trusted environment using integrating blockchain security components into the system. The system seeks to offer a means of communication in businesses.