A Cross-Chain Mechanism for Agricultural Engineering Document Management Blockchain in the Context of Big Data

Abstract

Cross-chain mechanism functions as typical approaches for information interaction between diverse blockchains tackling the problem of information silos in the big data era. Most of the existing cross-chain mechanisms are targeted at virtual currency blockchains in the financial sector. With more and more engineering documents manufactured by the development of modern smart farming, the need for engineering document management and cross-chaining between various blockchains has become increasingly urgent. This paper proposes a novel attainable cross-chain mechanism for agricultural engineering document management blockchains concerning the unique structure and operation principals of the specific domain. The methodology sufficiently integrated the characteristics of the agricultural engineering document management with the notary scheme, constructed by government supervision nodes with high credibility. Meanwhile, the authentication technology and cryptographic algorithms are internally fused, solving the authentication problem of the document cross-chain and protecting the cross-chain information respectively, which ensures the integrity and security of the file attribute information, alongside file ontology data in the cross-chain process. Adequate security proof and experiments illustrate that the developed mechanism can guarantee the feasibility of the mechanism, authenticity of the cross-chain parties, and the integrality and reliability of the document information, thus catering to the requirements of the cross-chain performance of blockchain in the field of agricultural engineering document management.