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Security in Distributed Ledger Technology: An Analysis of Vulnerabilities and Attack Vectors

Gojka, Efthimios-Enias; Kannengießer, Niclas ORCID iD icon; Sturm, Benjamin; Bartsch, Jan; Sunyaev, Ali

Abstract:

Despite various security features offered by distributed ledger technology (DLT), distributed ledgers are vulnerable to a variety of malicious attacks (e.g., selfish-mining and block withholding). While such vulnerabilities have been thoroughly investigated in extant research, understanding and development of appropriate countermeasures is still in its infancy. As a steppingstone for the future development of effective countermeasures, in this paper, we investigate known attacks on distributed ledgers to consolidate the underlying attack vectors and identify the focal DLT characteristics (e.g., propagation delay or confirmation latency) that are exploited in these attack vectors. Based on these insights, we accumulate potential countermeasures proposed in extant security research. The results of our work, thereby, provide a better understanding of the vulnerabilities of distributed ledgers. This understanding supports the simulation and analysis of the system behavior of distributed ledgers and the development of new countermeasures that focus on individual DLT characteristics to impede current and future attack vectors.


Originalveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-80129-8_50
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Zitationen: 4
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Angewandte Informatik und Formale Beschreibungsverfahren (AIFB)
Kompetenzzentrum für angewandte Sicherheitstechnologie (KASTEL)
Publikationstyp Proceedingsbeitrag
Publikationsdatum 15.06.2021
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISBN: 978-3-030-80129-8
KITopen-ID: 1000127752
HGF-Programm 46.23.01 (POF IV, LK 01) Methods for Engineering Secure Systems
Erschienen in Intelligent Computing: Proceedings of the 2021 Computing Conference, Volume 3. Ed.: K. Arai
Veranstaltung Computing Conference 2021 (2021), London, Vereinigtes Königreich, 15.07.2021 – 16.07.2021
Verlag Springer
Seiten 722-742
Serie Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS) ; 285
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Schlagwörter Blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), Security, Attack Vectors, Countermeasures
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