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See detailBlockPGP: A Blockchain-based Framework for PGP Key Servers
Yakubov, Alexander UL; Shbair, Wazen UL; Khan, Nida UL et al

in International Journal of Networking and Computing (2020), 10(1), 1-24

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is one of the most prominent cryptographic standards offering end-to-end encryption for email messages and other sensitive information exchange. PGP allows to verify the identity ... [more ▼]

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is one of the most prominent cryptographic standards offering end-to-end encryption for email messages and other sensitive information exchange. PGP allows to verify the identity of the correspondent in information exchange as well as the information integrity. PGP implements asymmetric encryption with certificates shared through a network of PGP key servers. In this paper, we propose a new PGP management framework with the key servers infrastructure implemented using blockchain technology. Our approach offers fast propagation of certificate revocation among PGP key servers and elimination of man-in-the-middle risks. It also grants users the required access control to update their own PGP certificates, which is not the case with the current PGP key servers. A prototype has been implemented using Ethereum blockchain and an open source key server, named Hockeypuck. Finally, we evaluated the prototype with extensive experiments. Our results show that our solution is practical and it could be integrated with the existing public PGP key servers infrastructure. [less ▲]

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See detailNon-Negative Paratuck2 Tensor Decomposition Combined to LSTM Network For Smart Contracts Profiling
Charlier, Jérémy Henri J. UL; State, Radu UL; Hilger, Jean

in Charlier, Jeremy; State, Radu; Hilger, Jean (Eds.) 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing Proceedings (2018, January)

Smart contracts are programs stored and executed on a blockchain. The Ethereum platform, an open source blockchain-based platform, has been designed to use these programs offering secured protocols and ... [more ▼]

Smart contracts are programs stored and executed on a blockchain. The Ethereum platform, an open source blockchain-based platform, has been designed to use these programs offering secured protocols and transaction costs reduction. The Ethereum Virtual Machine performs smart contracts runs, where the execution of each contract is limited to the amount of gas required to execute the operations described in the code. Each gas unit must be paid using Ether, the crypto-currency of the platform. Due to smart contracts interactions evolving over time, analyzing the behavior of smart contracts is very challenging. We address this challenge in our paper. We develop for this purpose an innovative approach based on the nonnegative tensor decomposition PARATUCK2 combined with long short-term memory (LSTM) to assess if predictive analysis can forecast smart contracts interactions over time. To validate our methodology, we report results for two use cases. The main use case is related to analyzing smart contracts and allows shedding some light into the complex interactions among smart contracts. In order to show the generality of our method on other use cases, we also report its performance on video on demand recommendation. [less ▲]

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See detailModeling Smart Contracts Activities: A Tensor based Approach
Charlier, Jérémy Henri J. UL; State, Radu UL; Hilger, Jean

in Charlier, Jeremy; State, Radu; Hilger, Jean (Eds.) Proceedings of 2017 Future Technologies Conference (FTC), 29-30 November 2017, Vancouver, Canada (2017, November)

Smart contracts are autonomous software executing predefined conditions. Two of the biggest advantages of the smart contracts are secured protocols and transaction costs reduction. On the Ethereum ... [more ▼]

Smart contracts are autonomous software executing predefined conditions. Two of the biggest advantages of the smart contracts are secured protocols and transaction costs reduction. On the Ethereum platform, an open-source blockchainbased platform, smart contracts implement a distributed virtual machine on the distributed ledger. To avoid denial of service attacks and monetize the services, payment transactions are executed whenever code is being executed between contracts. It is thus natural to investigate if predictive analysis is capable to forecast these interactions. We have addressed this issue and proposed an innovative application of the tensor decomposition CANDECOMP/PARAFAC to the temporal link prediction of smart contracts. We introduce a new approach leveraging stochastic processes for series predictions based on the tensor decomposition that can be used for smart contracts predictive analytics. [less ▲]

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