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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

Strong identities: the key to the security of the Hyperledger Fabric network

Strong identities are at the heart of Hyperledger Fabric security. Creating, managing, and revoking these identities is critical to the operational security of Hyperledger Fabric-based deployment. The identities are issued and validated by an MSP. As shown in the previous Hyperledger Fabric architecture diagram, one logical MSP is typically associated with one peer. An MSP can validate any appropriate cryptographically signed identities. Hyperledger Fabric ships with a default MSP (Fabric CA), which issues X.509 certificates to the authenticated entities.

Bootstrapping Fabric CA

Fabric CA can be configured with an Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server or run in standalone mode. When running in standalone mode, it must be configured with a bootstrap identity that gets stored in its backend database. By default, a SQLite database is used, but for production usages, a PostgreSQL or MySQL...