Blockchain security July 14, 2021 Susan Morrow Decentralized identifiers (DIDs) and blockchain: The silver bullet for online privacy? Learn more about decentralized identifiers and the role they play in keeping your privacy and data intact.
Blockchain security April 26, 2021 Susan Morrow Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework: Impacts on digital forensic investigations A new Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework was recently released. Learn how it may impact cryptocurrency, cybersecurity and digital forensics investigations.
Blockchain security March 10, 2021 Howard Poston Blockchain and hash functions Hash functions are cryptographic algorithms designed to protect the integrity of data. Hash functions have a few useful properties, including: One-way:...
Blockchain security March 8, 2021 Howard Poston Attacking block creation Blockchain is a relatively new technology that is achieving rapid adoption. It has a number of built-in protections and incentives designed to allow the decentralized...
Blockchain security February 18, 2021 Greg Belding What is blockchain? Blockchain is built from layers rather than in one big piece. Cryptographic algorithms and data structures are part of the lowest layer of blockchain technology....
Blockchain security December 16, 2020 Nitesh Malviya What are smart contracts? Let’s understand what Smart Contracts are using a simple example. Consider the purchase of cookies from a vending machine. The one who wants to buy the...
Blockchain security December 16, 2020 Nitesh Malviya Introduction to blockchain consensus algorithms A blockchain is a record of digital transactions. It is a distributed software network which can function both as a digital ledger and as a mechanism allowing...
Blockchain security November 24, 2020 Howard Poston Advanced cryptography in blockchain Blockchain technology is revolutionary. It provides a completely different way of accomplishing a wide range of tasks, which has led to its widespread adoption. However,...
Blockchain security October 14, 2020 Howard Poston Blockchain second-layer protocols Blockchain technology was a major innovation. The original Bitcoin whitepaper, authored by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, described the first system...
Blockchain security October 14, 2020 Howard Poston Blockchain alternative distributed ledger architectures Blockchains are the original distributed ledger architecture, and the creation of blockchain was a major innovation. However, blockchains also have their...