Blockchains

Name: Blockchains
Author: Sushmita Ruj
ISBN: 9783031321450

Sushmita Ruj

Language: English

Published by Springer International Publishing, Springer International Publishing Mär 2024, 2024

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Series: Book 95 of 109 - Advances in Information Security

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This handbook is a selection of foundational aspects, security analysis, platforms, and applications of blockchains that consists of four parts. The first part introduces the basic building blocks such as distributed computing and cryptography. Consensus algorithms that form the basic backbone of blockchain protocols are presented. Various cryptographic tools like hash functions, digital signatures and commitment schemes are also introduced. Advanced cryptographic techniques such as zero knowledge protocols, secret sharing, verifiable random functions that are used for privacy-preserving and secure design are discussed.The second part of this handbook consists of popular blockchain designs and platforms. Architecture of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, Tendermint and Algorand have been presented. Various important issues like scalability and security are discussed in the third part. Security design challenges, security vulnerabilities and their analysis are discussed. The final part of this handbook discusses various applications of blockchains. These include supply-chain, identity and credential management, Internet of Things (IoT), data-sharing, e-voting, e-governance, e-health, smart cities, and Industry 4.0. Research challenges and directions of future work are included in this handbook.This comprehensive reference targets students and researchers, who are starting to explore blockchain. Professionals working in blockchain security and applications will find this handbook to be a valuable reference. 636 pp. Englisch.…

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Title: Blockchains
Author: Sushmita Ruj
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Springer International Publishing Mär 2024
Publication year: 2024
Condition: Neu
Binding: Buch
Language: English
ISBN 10: 3031321456
ISBN 13: 9783031321450
Item weight: 1,109 grams
Dimensions: 241x160x40 mm
Series: Book 95 of 109: Advances in Information Security

About the Author

Sushmita Ruj is Senior Lecturer at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW, Sydney. She is also affiliated with UNSW Institute for Cyber Security (IFCYBER). Her research interests are in applied cryptography, blockchains, cybersecurity and data privacy. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and delivered over 90 technical lectures around the world. Before joining UNSW, she was a Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO's Data61, an Associate Professor at Indian Statistical Institute and an Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, IIT, Indore. She worked at Lund University Sweden and University of Ottawa, Canada. She was a visiting researcher/faculty at NTU, Singapore, KDDI R&D Labs, Japan, INRIA, France, Kyushu University, Japan and intern at Microsoft Research Labs, India. She was a member of the “Blockchain For Cybersecurity” working group of the National Blockchain Roadmap of Australia and the Blockchain working group founded by the Reserve Bankof India. Sushmita serves on the Editorial board of Elsevier Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA) and Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC). She served as a Program Co-Chair for ACISP 2021 and Indocrypt 2019. She won best paper awards at ISPA 2007, IEEE PIMRC 2011 and IEEE ANTS 17. She received Samsung GRO award, NetApp Faculty Fellowship, Cisco University Research Grant, grant from IBM Research and lead a Cybersecurity Cooperative Research Centre (CSCRC) project which is a NSW iAWARD’22 Merit Winner. Sushmita is a Senior member of ACM and IEEE. She received her B.E. degree from Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, India and master’s and Ph.D. from Indian Statistical Institute, India, all in Computer Science.

Salil Kanhere is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW Sydney. He is also affiliated with CISRO's Data61, the Cybersecurity Cooperative Research Centre (CSCRC) and the UNSW Institute forCyber Security (IFCYBER). His research interests span the Internet of Things, cyberphyiscal systems, cybersecurity, blockchain and machine learning. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and is leading several government and industry funded research projects on these topics. He received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award (2020) and the Humboldt Research Fellowship (2014), both from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and ACM, an ACM Distinguished Speaker and an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor. He has held visiting positions at I2R Singapore, Technical University Darmstadt, University of Zurich and Graz University of Technology. He serves as the Editor in Chief of the Ad Hoc Networks journal and as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions On Network and Service Management, Computer Communications, and Pervasive and Mobile Computing. He regularly serves on the organising committee of several IEEE/ACM international conferences. Salil co-authored a book titled Blockchain for Cyberphysical Systems published by Artech House in 2020.

Mauro Conti is Full Professor at the University of Padua, Italy. He is also affiliated with TU Delft and University of Washington, Seattle. He obtained his Ph.D. from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, in 2009. After his Ph.D., he was a Post-Doc Researcher at Vrije Universiteit

Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In 2011 he joined as Assistant Professor at the University of Padua, where he became Associate Professor in 2015, and Full Professor in 2018. He has been Visiting Researcher at GMU, UCLA, UCI, TU Darmstadt, UF, and FIU. He has been awarded with a Marie Curie Fellowship (2012) by the European Commission, and with a Fellowship by the German DAAD (2013). His research is also funded by companies, including Cisco, Intel, and Huawei. His main research interest is in the area of Security and Privacy. In this area, he published more than 550 papers in topmost international peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He is Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on

Information Forensics and Security, Area Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, and has been Associate Editor for several journals, including IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, and IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. He was Program Chair for TRUST 2015, ICISS 2016, WiSec 2017, ACNS 2020, CANS 2021, CSS 2021, WiMob 2023 and ESORICS 2023, and General Chair for SecureComm 2012, SACMAT 2013, NSS 2021 and ACNS 2022. He is Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the AAIA, Senior Member of the ACM, and Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe.

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