Implementation of the Digital COVID-19 Vaccination Passport based on Blockchain Protecting Privacy

Abstract

The paper discusses proposals for implementing the COVID-19 digital Vaccination Passport based on Blockchain that protects privacy. Since the end of the last year, after the commencement of vaccination against COVID-19, there has been an intense discussion on the form of introducing such a tool and the consequences of its implementation. This discussion is taking place in many European countries. One element of this discussion was the safety and anonymity of the massively verified data of persons on vaccinations in various areas of society functioning. These issues are being resolved by the proposed digital Vaccination Passport system. This system uses two major methods: Blockchain and hash functions, which allow you to maintain security, privacy, and anonymity at the same time. To improve the intuitiveness and simplicity of the system operation, the QR code technology was proposed in the passport verification process. The system has been implemented and tested in the Amazon AWS cloud computing environment. A reference architecture based on Blockchain for the AWS environment was proposed, dedicated to large and demanding application solutions. In addition, the cloud environment offers access to many tools that were used in the system’s implementation, significantly increasing the security of the entire solution.