Blockchain-Based Login Research Wins Award For Advancing Decentralised Access Control

Two researchers, Ahmed Afif Monrat and Karl Andersson, received a Best Paper Award at the 11th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Technology and Engineering for work that explores how blockchain and smart contracts can harden login flows on online platforms. Their paper describes a decentralised access-control system in which a user’s identity is validated across multiple independent instances rather than through a single central authority, with passwords encrypted and split so that an attacker intercepting traffic sees only meaningless fragments instead of a usable secret. The authors argue that while traditional, centralised identity platforms may work in high-trust environments, a blockchain-based approach could be especially valuable in regions where trust in institutions is low, because it reduces reliance on any one party and provides a verifiable audit trail of authentication decisions.​

15-12-2025