August 2019
Intermediate to advanced
486 pages
13h 52m
English
Content preview from Mastering Blockchain Programming with Solidity
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Sealed with cryptography
Asymmetric cryptography is used for wallet generation and transaction signing using the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA). All transactions are packed together using the Merkle tree and SHA-256 cryptographic algorithms. This makes blockchains secure and reliable to use.