Security services using blockchains: A state of the art survey
Author | Salman, Tara |
Author | Zolanvari, Maede |
Author | Erbad, Aiman |
Author | Jain, Raj |
Author | Samaka, Mohammed |
Available date | 2020-06-23T20:45:41Z |
Publication Date | 2019 |
Publication Name | IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials |
Resource | Scopus |
ISSN | 1553877X |
Abstract | This paper surveys blockchain-based approaches for several security services. These services include authentication, confidentiality, privacy and access control list, data and resource provenance, and integrity assurance. All these services are critical for the current distributed applications, especially due to the large amount of data being processed over the networks and the use of cloud computing. Authentication ensures that the user is who he/she claims to be. Confidentiality guarantees that data cannot be read by unauthorized users. Privacy provides the users the ability to control who can access their data. Provenance allows an efficient tracking of the data and resources along with their ownership and utilization over the network. Integrity helps in verifying that the data has not been modified or altered. These services are currently managed by centralized controllers, for example, a certificate authority. Therefore, the services are prone to attacks on the centralized controller. On the other hand, blockchain is a secured and distributed ledger that can help resolve many of the problems with centralization. The objectives of this paper are to give insights on the use of security services for current applications, to highlight the state of the art techniques that are currently used to provide these services, to describe their challenges, and to discuss how the blockchain technology can resolve these challenges. Further, several blockchain-based approaches providing such security services are compared thoroughly. Challenges associated with using blockchain-based security services are also discussed to spur further research in this area. - 2018 IEEE. |
Sponsor | Manuscript received August 29, 2017; revised February 18, 2018 and June 14, 2018; accepted July 17, 2018. Date of publication August 7, 2018; date of current version February 22, 2019. This work was supported in part by the NPRP award from the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of The Qatar Foundation) under Grant NPRP 8-634-1-131, and in part by NSF under Grant CNS-1547380. (Corresponding author: Tara Salman.) T. Salman, M. Zolanvari, and R. Jain are with the Computer Science and Engineering Department, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130 USA (e-mail: tara.salman@wustl.edu; maede.zolanvari@wustl.edu; jain@wustl.edu). |
Language | en |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
Subject | Access control list Blockchain challenges Blockchains Data privacy Integrity assurance Provenance Public key cryptography |
Type | Article |
Pagination | 858-880 |
Issue Number | 1 |
Volume Number | 21 |
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