A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF TRADITIONAL AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION METHODS WITH BLOCK CHAIN TECHNOLOGY FOR EGOVERNANCE SERVICES

Abstract

With the increase in communication channels between various stakeholders in eGovernance scenario, offering secure e-Services by means of Authentication and Authorization became a crucial part.  The multi factor authentication (MF) provides better protection effectively than the age old password based authentication. Governments are making efforts to establish multi factor authentication without comprising on provisioning the e-services. But there are some drawbacks in this centralised mode of authentication. In this paper, an exploratory comparative study of usability of blockchain technologies in eGovernance by studying National and International scenarios and the methods to provide e-services. Secondary data study will be conducted for studying the existing Authentication and Authorization of the user in e-services. The researcher is considering the factors like centralisation, scalability, trust factors while comparing various MF technologies and proposing usage of blockchain technology in eGovernance services by taking a case study of eHealth services.