A Survey on the Security of Blockchain Systems
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Some blockchain solutions such as Uport or Sovrin deal with private key loss by providing recovery and revocation mechanisms for the private keys.
“Some blockchain solutions such as Uport [20] or Sovrin [82] deal with this issue by providing recovery and revocation mechanisms for the private keys.”
From Privacy-Preserving Solutions for Blockchain: Review and Challenges (2019) · cites this paper as [82]
Current blockchain implementations such as uPort or Sovrin are starting or planning to adopt these standards.
“current blockchain implementations such as uPort [20] or Sovrin [82] are starting or planning to adopt these standards.”
From Privacy-Preserving Solutions for Blockchain: Review and Challenges (2019) · cites this paper as [82]
With traditional symmetric or asymmetric encryption, the creator of the data would upload the encrypted transaction and then distribute the decryption key off-ledger, or using an instantiation of a decentralized PKI over the blockchain like Sovrin to manage public keys.
“With traditional symmetric or asymmetric encryption, the creator of the data would upload the encrypted transaction and then distribute the decryption key off-ledger, or using an instantiation IEEEAccess of a decentralized PKI over the blockchain like in Sovrin [82] to manage public keys.”
From Privacy-Preserving Solutions for Blockchain: Review and Challenges (2019) · cites this paper as [82]
Data threats or adversaries can enter blockchain software to hold control of the blockchain, leading to modifications of medical transaction or patient data and raising privacy concerns.
“Data threats or adversaries can enter the blockchain software to hold the control of the blockchain, which can lead to serious consequences, like modifications of medical transaction or patient data information, raising privacy concerns [158].”
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- Authors
- Li, X., Jiang, P., Chen, T., Luo, X., & Wen, Q.
- Affiliations
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HK)
- University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (CN)
- Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Luo, Xiapu
- Venue
- Future Generation Computer Systems
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-06
- Volume
- 107
- Pages
- 841-853
- ISSN
- 0167-739X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2963264685
- Cited by
- 1,772
- References
- 5
- Citations by year
- 2026: 88 · 2025: 180 · 2024: 178 · 2023: 265 · 2022: 299 · 2021: 284 · 2020: 228 · 2019: 187 · 2018: 60 · 2017: 3
- FWCI
- 243.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Future Generation Computer Systems (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- PolyU Institutional Research Archive (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province (2015B020233018)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (61471228, 61502086, 61572115, 61402080, 61572109)
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2014M562307)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Blockchain Technology in Education and Learning
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Cryptography and Data Security
- Keywords
- blockchain security, security threats, blockchain attacks, smart contracts, cryptocurrency, privacy
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