March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
656 pages
20h 9m
English
Content preview from Mastering Blockchain - Second Edition
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Nodes
Nodes in a Corda network operated under a trust-less model and run by different organizations. Nodes run as part of an authenticated peer-to-peer network. Nodes communicate directly with each other using the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), which is an approved international standard (ISO/IEC 19464) and ensures that messages across different nodes are transferred safely and securely. AMQP works over Transport Layer Security (TLS) in Corda, thus ensuring privacy and integrity of data communicated between nodes.
Nodes also make use of a local relational database for storage. Messages on the network are encoded in a compact binary format. They are delivered and managed by using the Apache Artemis message broker (Active MQ). A ...