Chapter 14: Cryptography in blockchain
Anupam Tiwari Computer Science Department, GD Goenka University, Gurugram, Haryana, India
Abstract
Blockchain is emerging as one the most promising and revolutionary technologies in the present world. Though blockchain at the onset was majorly associated with financial domain, but after the arrival of Ethereum and smart contracts, the association just expanded the association with all possible domains. While blockchain will be able to offer the characteristics in all the domains, it will only be banking on the cryptographic protocols that mechanize the blockchain internals. Whether it is the proof of work mechanics or the digital signatures or encryption part, the complete ecosystem of blockchain ...
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