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Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839218750

Length 756 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Blockchain

Concepts

Blockchain

Authors (7):

Salman A. Baset

Venkatraman Ramakrishna

Salman Baset

Anthony O'Dowd

Petr Novotny

Nitin Gaur

Luc Desrosiers

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Blockchain – An Enterprise and Industry Perspective

2. Exploring Hyperledger Fabric FREE CHAPTER

3. Business Networks

4. Setting the Stage with a Business Scenario

5. Designing Smart Contract Transactions and Ledger Data Structures

6. Developing Smart Contracts

7. Developing Applications

8. Advanced Topics for Developing Smart Contracts and Applications

9. Network Operation and Distributed Application Building

10. Enterprise Design Patterns and Considerations

11. Agility in a Blockchain Network

12. Governance – A Necessary Evil of Regulated Industries

13. Life in a Blockchain Network

14. Hyperledger Fabric Security

15. Blockchain's Future, Protocol Commercialization, and Challenges Ahead

16. Another Book You May Enjoy

17. Index

Hyperledger Fabric architecture

The Hyperledger Fabric architecture for N participating organizations is illustrated in the following screenshot. An organization is a business entity that participates in a Hyperledger Fabric-based permissioned blockchain network and deploys the Hyperledger Fabric infrastructure such as peers, ordering nodes, smart contracts, and membership service providers.

In this section, we will describe this architecture in more detail from a security viewpoint:

Figure 14.1: Hyperledger Fabric architecture

Fabric CA or membership service provider

The membership service provider (MSP) is responsible for creating digital identities for peers and users of a participating organization, validating identities, and is configured based on the root certificates and CRLs of one or more X.509 CAs. Fabric Certificate Authority (Fabric CA) is the recommended CA server for Fabric deployments, but it is possible to use other CA architectures, or even public...