Implementing Blockchain to Enhance Security in the Pharmaceutical Industry and Combat Drug Counterfeiting


Year : 2025 | Volume : 12 | Issue : 01 | Page : 33-46
    By

    Asfia Aziz,

  • Sunil Suman,

  1. Research Scholar, P.G. Department of Mathematics, Magadh University, Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India
  2. Head of the Department, P.G. Department of Mathematics, Magadh University, Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India

Abstract

Drug counterfeiting has emerged as a critical threat to public health, as it has enabled inferior and counterfeit drugs to flood many markets around the world thereby eroding trust in healthcare systems and patient safety. This paper seeks to address the glaring need for adequate security safeguards to curb the circulation of counterfeit drugs by proposing a blockchain model designed specifically for the pharmaceutical industries. In general, the idea of this research is to design a methodology that improves the security of drug distribution networks by detecting and eliminating counterfeit drugs. Existing systems such as Pharmacrypt and Drugledger are analyzed based on performance metrics encompassing execution time, latency, and throughput. Therefore, the model developed is built with cryptography techniques of N-th Degree Truncated Polynomial Ring Units (NTRU), Secure Multi-Party Computation (SMPC), and Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZKP), toward the purpose of information security, privacy, and integrity in a supply chain. The model achieves several steps such as the generation of unique keys by NTRU, safe distribution through SMPC, and verification through ZKP, and the consequences of real-time drug tracking through IoT. The results reflect that the designed NTRU-SMPC model is superior to the existing systems, showing an execution time of 16,000 milliseconds for 1000 transactions, an average latency of 16 milliseconds, and a throughput of 55 transactions per second. Future work involves refining the model into pharmaceutical applications, improving security as well as scalability with AI-based fraud detection to combat drug counterfeiting.

Keywords: Blockchain, Drug Counterfeiting, Secure Multi-Party Computation (SMPC), N-th Degree Truncated Polynomial Ring Units (NTRU), Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP).

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Received 26/10/2024
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