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Shaik Mulla Almas, Kavitha K and Kalavathi Alla, “Decentralised Secure and Privacy Establishment in VANET Using Key Encrypted Block Chain Scheme”, Journal of Machine and Computing, vol.5, no.1, pp. 045-057, January 2025, doi: 10.53759/7669/jmc202505004.
