Advances in Cyber Security and Intelligent Analytics

Chapter 4Exploring the possibility of blockchain and smart contract-based digital certificate

P. Ravi Kumar, P. Herbert Raj, and Sharul Tajuddin

DOI: 10.1201/9781003269144-4

CONTENTS

• 4.1 Introduction

• 4.2 Background study

  • 4.2.1 Public key infrastructure

  • 4.2.2 Certificate authorities and digital certificates

  • 4.2.3 TLS protocols

  • 4.2.4 Smart contract

• 4.3 Threats and vulnerabilities in the digital certificate ecosystem

• 4.4 Related work

• 4.5 Proposed framework

• 4.6 Research outcome

• 4.7 Conclusion and future research

• References

4.1 INTRODUCTION

Currently, digital certificates are produced by certificate authority (CA) using X.509 standard which provides trust between a client and a server [1, 2]. This X.509 standard defines the format of the ...