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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">journal-of-discrete-mathematical-sciences-and-cryptography</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Discrete Mathematical Sciences and Cryptography</journal-title>
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      <issn publication-format="electronic">2169-0065</issn>
      <issn publication-format="print">0972-0529</issn>
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        <publisher-name>Taru Publications</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47974/JDMSC-2696</article-id>
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        <article-title>Design and analysis of a discrete mathematical model for secure and encrypted dynamic sharding in blockchain systems</article-title>
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          <name>
            <surname>Kushwaha</surname>
            <given-names>Satpal Singh</given-names>
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          <aff>Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Manipal University Jaipur, Jaipur, Rajasthan, 303007, India</aff>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Addimulam</surname>
            <given-names>Sushanth Chandra</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Kforce Inc., 2681 Sidney St., Pittsburgh, PA 15203, USA</aff>
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          <name>
            <surname>Rawat</surname>
            <given-names>Manoj Kumar</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Medicaps University, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, 453331, India</aff>
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          <name>
            <surname>Sridevi</surname>
            <given-names>S.</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Internet of Things (IoT), Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, 522302, India</aff>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name>
            <surname>Noonia</surname>
            <given-names>Ajit</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Manipal University Jaipur, Jaipur, Rajasthan, 303007, India</aff>
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      </contrib-group>
      <volume>29</volume>
      <issue>8</issue>
      <fpage>3117</fpage>
      <lpage>3125</lpage>
      <pub-date date-type="pub">
        <day>14</day>
        <month>08</month>
        <year>2026</year>
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        <p>Blockchain sharding enhances scalability by dividing the network and ledger into parallel-processing shards, but dynamic sharding introduces security risks, especially under adaptive adversarial attacks. This paper presents a rigorous discrete mathematical framework for secure and encrypted dynamic sharding. It models shard formation, node assignment, and reconfiguration as discrete-time stochastic processes over dynamic graphs, with cryptographic hash functions ensuring secure shard allocation. Security is analyzed using combinatorics and probability theory, while a Markov-chain-based model captures system evolution under adversarial influence. The paper derives bounds on shard compromise probability using binomial distributions and Chernoff bounds. Additionally, a key-evolving encryption mechanism is introduced to ensure correct and forward-secure state transitions. Theoretical results show that shard takeover probability decreases exponentially with shard size, while encrypted state migration preserves consistency. Overall, this work provides a mathematically rigorous foundation with provable security and correctness guarantees for scalable blockchain systems.</p>
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        <kwd>Secure sharding</kwd>
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