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CoviChain: A Blockchain Based COVID-19 Vaccination Passport
Vaccination passports are being issued by governments around the world in
order to open up their travel and hospitality sectors. Civil liberty
campaigners on the other hand argue that such mandatory instruments encroach
upon our fundamental right to anonymity, freedom of movement, and are a
backdoor to issuing "identity documents" to citizens by their governments. In
this paper we present a privacy-preserving framework that uses two-factor
authentication to create a unique identifier that can be used to locate a
person's vaccination record on a blockchain, but does not store any personal
information about them. Our main contribution is the employment of a locality
sensitive hashing algorithm over an iris extraction technique, that can be used
to authenticate users and anonymously locate vaccination records on the
blockchain, without leaking any personally identifiable information to the
blockchain. Our proposed system allows for the safe reopening of society, while
maintaining the privacy of citizens