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Blockchain Development with Hyperledger

By : Salman A. Baset, Luc Desrosiers, Nitin Gaur, Petr Novotny, Anthony O'Dowd, Venkatraman Ramakrishna, Weimin Sun, Xun (Brian) Wu
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Blockchain Development with Hyperledger

By: Salman A. Baset, Luc Desrosiers, Nitin Gaur, Petr Novotny, Anthony O'Dowd, Venkatraman Ramakrishna, Weimin Sun, Xun (Brian) Wu

Overview of this book

Blockchain and Hyperledger are open source technologies that power the development of decentralized applications. This Learning Path is your helpful reference for exploring and building blockchain networks using Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric, and Hyperledger Composer. Blockchain Development with Hyperledger will start off by giving you an overview of blockchain and demonstrating how you can set up an Ethereum development environment for developing, packaging, building, and testing campaign-decentralized applications. You'll then explore the de facto language Solidity, which you can use to develop decentralized applications in Ethereum. Following this, you'll be able to configure Hyperledger Fabric and use it to build private blockchain networks and applications that connect to them. Toward the later chapters, you'll learn how to design and launch a network, and even implement smart contracts in chain code. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be able to build and deploy your own decentralized applications by addressing the key pain points encountered in the blockchain life cycle. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Blockchain Quick Start Guide by Xun (Brian) Wu and Weimin Sun • Hands-On Blockchain with Hyperledger by Nitin Gaur et al.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 11. Hyperledger Fabric Security

Hyperledger Fabric is a modular blockchain system. It has been designed to allow a known set of actors to participate and perform actions in a blockchain network (the so-called permissioned blockchain). Due to its modular nature, it can be deployed in many different configurations. Different deployment configurations of Hyperledger Fabric have different security implications for the operator of the network, as well its users.

At its core, Hyperledger Fabric is a public key infrastructure (PKI) system and thus it inherits the security (and complexity) associated with such systems. At the time of writing this book, Hyperledger Fabric v1.1 has been released.

Note

The security aspects of designing and implementing a blockchain network has been discussed in earlier application chapters, we intend to give a broader as well as a more in-depth view of the security features of Hyperledger Fabric here.

We will be covering the following topics in this chapter:

  • Design...