Augmenting integrity and scalability in mobile payment applications using blockchain

¹ Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Coimbatore, India
² Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Coimbatore, India
³ EDP Department of Informatics - Physics, Ibn Zohr University, Agadir Morocco

^* Corresponding author: zionshibin@gmail.com

Abstract

The transactional information from the mobile wallets is offloaded from the mobile device to the mobile transaction server. The transaction involves various communication standards, confidential transaction information to ensure flawless transaction of data. There exist several encryption techniques to preserve confidentiality, hashing schemes to prove the integrity, signature schemes to prove the identity in the mobile transaction using mobile wallet applications. Even though mobile wallet possesses secure algorithms, the transactions are facing security issues such as double spending, lack of dispute redressal issue, lack of forward secrecy, lack of anonymity in the transaction and security. Therefore, Blockchain based Mobile transaction Scheme is proposed to solve the security issues including integrity, double spending and improve scalability. This paper presents a strategy which implements blockchain framework by using irreversible keys for mobile wallet applications. The proposed scheme proves to be secure against the security attacks and enhances integrity and scalability compared to the existing schemes.