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Securing Blockchain Networks like Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric

By : Alessandro Parisi
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Securing Blockchain Networks like Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric

By: Alessandro Parisi

Overview of this book

Blockchain adoption has extended from niche research to everyday usage. However, despite the blockchain revolution, one of the key challenges faced in blockchain development is maintaining security, and this book will demonstrate the techniques for doing this. You’ll start with blockchain basics and explore various blockchain attacks on user wallets, and denial of service and pool mining attacks. Next, you’ll learn cryptography concepts, consensus algorithms in blockchain security, and design principles while understanding and deploying security implementation guidelines. You’ll not only cover architectural considerations, but also work on system and network security and operational configurations for your Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric network. You’ll later implement security at each level of blockchain app development, understanding how to secure various phases of a blockchain app using an example-based approach. You’ll gradually learn to securely implement and develop decentralized apps, and follow deployment best practices. Finally, you’ll explore the architectural components of Hyperledger Fabric, and how they can be configured to build secure private blockchain networks. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned blockchain security concepts and techniques that you can implement in real blockchain production environments.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Section 1: Blockchain Security Core Concepts
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Section 2: Architecting Blockchain Security
8
Section 3: Securing Decentralized Apps and Smart Contracts
11
Section 4: Preserving Data Integrity and Privacy

Storing illicit data in the blockchain

Much of the attraction of the blockchain is undeniably due to the fact that it represents a tamper-proof public ledger. This feature has contributed to the growing trust associated with technology such as blockchain, which aims to guarantee robustness, transparency, and the reliability of transactions. It is no coincidence that various uses of blockchain technology have been hypothesized and implemented over time, ranging from financial transactions to identity management, to the supply chain.

The diffusion of smart contracts testifies to the growing interest in the use of the blockchain to ensure the transfer of assets and property rights in a safe way, thereby preventing the possibility of fraud. The prevention of the possibility of fraud in transactions is associated precisely with the public and distributed nature of the blockchain ledger...