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Hands-On Blockchain with Hyperledger

By : Nitin Gaur, Luc Desrosiers, Venkatraman Ramakrishna, Petr Novotny, Salman A. Baset, Anthony O'Dowd
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Hands-On Blockchain with Hyperledger

By: Nitin Gaur, Luc Desrosiers, Venkatraman Ramakrishna, Petr Novotny, Salman A. Baset, Anthony O'Dowd

Overview of this book

Blockchain and Hyperledger technologies are hot topics today. Hyperledger Fabric and Hyperledger Composer are open source projects that help organizations create private, permissioned blockchain networks. These find application in finance, banking, supply chain, and IoT among several other sectors. This book will be an easy reference to explore and build blockchain networks using Hyperledger technologies. The book starts by outlining the evolution of blockchain, including an overview of relevant blockchain technologies. You will learn how to configure Hyperledger Fabric and become familiar with its architectural components. Using these components, you will learn to build private blockchain networks, along with the applications that connect to them. Starting from principles first, you’ll learn to design and launch a network, implement smart contracts in chaincode and much more. By the end of this book, you will be able to build and deploy your own decentralized applications, handling the key pain points encountered in the blockchain life cycle.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

Common threats and how Hyperledger Fabric mitigates them 


Hyperledger Fabric provides protection against some of the most common security threats, and assumes a shared responsibility model for addressing others. In the following table, we will summarize the most common security threats, whether Hyperledger Fabric addresses them and how or whether it is the responsibility of a node/network operator to address them:

Threat

Description

Hyperledger Fabric

Network/Node Operator

Spoofing

Use of a token or other credential to pretend to be an authorized user, or compromise a user's private key.

Fabric certificate authority generates X.509 certificates for its members.

Manage certificate revocation list distribution among network participants to ensure that revoked members can no longer access the system.

Tampering

Modify information (for example, an entry in the database).

Use of cryptographic measures (SHA256, ECDSA) make tampering infeasible.

Derived from Fabric.

Repudiation

An entity cannot deny who did what...