Modeling a secure supply chain integrity preservation system

It is important to preserve the integrity of a product as it is transported through the channel of distribution and delivered to the final consumer. In real world cases, manufacturing plants are sited at different parts of the world. Thus, it is an absolute necessity to have a secure mechanism which allows the supply chain integrity to be preserved. In this paper, we proposed a novel three-way bounded protocol for generating asserted holding and transferal proofs for preserving the integrity of the supply chain system. Additionally, the proofs are used to create a provenance chain for preserving the chronological order of the path of the product. The proposed protocol allows us to ensure the authenticity of the product with respect to its supply chain. We also provide a security analysis of the proposed architecture to illustrate the feasibility of the design.