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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 Security

Hyperledger Fabric has a modular architecture. 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. The different deployment configurations of Hyperledger Fabric have varying security implications for the operator of the network, as well as 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 2.1.1 has been released.

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

We will be covering the following topics in this chapter: