Blockchain-Based Multisignature Lock for UAC in Metaverse

As an emerging digital concept offering interconnections across multiple platforms, the metaverse provides digital transformations for various aspects of the physical world, facilitated by a few novel technologies, for example, cloud computing offers data support for the digital world. Humans immersed in the metaverse are digital entities who communicate with others or objects, such that ubiquitous access controls (UACs) are indispensable sectors for multiple platforms. However, in the metaverse, UACs have opened a wide scope of bridges for individuals to shuttle the virtual world, which implies that numerous threats exist at the access layer due to a great pool of entries. In this paper, to solve security issues in the UAC setting of the metaverse, we propose a novel blockchain-based multisignature lock for UAC (BMSL-UAC) scheme. All data institutions reconstruct a consortium blockchain system. In addition, our proposed scheme ensures that only authorized users can access an institution’s data. Finally, we abstract the user’s data access behaviors into the transaction information of the consortium blockchain system to realize full life-cycle data management and traceability. To verify the performance of our scheme, a series of experiments are carried out on the Hyperledger, and evaluation results have demonstrated that the resource consumption, delay, and throughput of this scheme are all within a reasonable range.