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Privacy Protection in Blockchain Systems: A Review

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Data Processing Techniques and Applications for Cyber-Physical Systems (DPTA 2019)

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Abstract

Blockchain as a database that can be distributed storage, it has the characteristics of non-tampering, decentralization and strong security. With the continuous development and application of the blockchain, it has begun to expose more and more privacy leaks. In this paper the existing privacy protection schemes of blockchain from three aspects: data distortion, cryptography and off-chain technology in introduced, which aims to provide theoretical support for the research on privacy protection of blockchains.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61661019); the Higher Education Reform Key Project of Hainan Prov-ince (No. Hnjg2017ZD-1).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Internet Information Retrieval of Hainan Province, Haikou, 570228, People’s Republic of China

    Tianjiao yu & Chunjie Cao

  2. State Key Laboratory of Marine Resource Utilization in the South China Sea, Haikou, 570228, People’s Republic of China

    Tianjiao yu & Chunjie Cao

  3. School of Computer Science and Cyberspace Security, Hainan University, Haikou, 570228, People’s Republic of China

    Tianjiao yu & Chunjie Cao

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yu, T., Cao, C. (2020). Privacy Protection in Blockchain Systems: A Review. In: Huang, C., Chan, YW., Yen, N. (eds) Data Processing Techniques and Applications for Cyber-Physical Systems (DPTA 2019). Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1088. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1468-5_241

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