Abstract
Presently, the whole world is suffering from the Covid-19 pandemic. In this harmful situation, using information and Internet technology is mandatory for the government and medical practitioners. After the lockdown, the government needs to take important decisions to allow passengers to travel through air, rail, and land. In the present situation, people need to get a medical report from the hospitals to travel through various modes of transport. In this regard, the Covid-19 history of the passengers plays an important role in issuing tickets to the passengers. Hence, in this paper, a novel authentication method using InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is suggested to retrieve the Covid-19 history of all passengers to determine whether to issue tickets and allow people to travel through various modes of transport. The government can share the Covid-19 status of passengers with the ticket issuing authority. The medical practitioners can share medical reports and medical images of such people for telediagnosis. To provide security, a novel privacy-preserving storage and sharing of Covid-19 records using secure authentication and image cryptosystem are proposed using chaos, cryptographic hash (SHA-256), Paillier cryptosystem, and IPFS. Security analysis shows that the system can withstand various kinds of attacks.