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A Fernet Based Lightweight Cryptography Adopted Enhancing Certificate Validation through Blockchain Technology

10.46243/jst.2024.v9.i1.pp21-29 · JournalArticle — an article in a journal · Digital · Visual · Language · en

Published 2024-01-25

Part of Journal of Science & Technology · ISSN 2456-5660 · vol. 9 · no. 1 · pp. 21–29

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• K. Obulesh K. Obulesh (author → Author)
• Longman Publishers (publisher → Publisher)

Also in the record, outside the Kernel: the abstract, the licence, 4 links, 12 references. Source: Crossref (member 25296), registered 2024-02-16, last deposited 2026-09-17.

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