A Secure Land Record Management System using Blockchain Technology

Abstract

A land record (LR) contains very sensitive information related to land e.g. owner, buyer, etc. Currently, almost all over the world, the LR is maintained by different governmental offices and most of them maintain the LR with paper-based approach. Some of the works focus to digitalize the existing land record management system (LRMS) but with some security concerns. A blockchain-based LRMS can be effective enough to solve the existing issues. This paper proposes a blockchain-based LRMS that (i) digitalizes the existing paper-based system, (ii) ensures LR privacy using an asymmetric cryptosystem, (iii) preserves LR integrity, (iv) facilitates a platform for trading land through an advertising agency, and (v) accelerates the process of changing ownership that saves time significantly. Besides, this paper also proposes a new way of character to integer mapping named C2I table that reduces around 33% overhead of text to integer conversion compared to ASCII table. The experimental results, analyses, and comparisons indicate the effectiveness of the proposed LRMS over the state-of-the-art systems.