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A Blockchain Based PKI System for Peer to Peer Network

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Advances in Distributed Computing and Machine Learning

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems ((LNNS,volume 302))

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The Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) technology is the core part of authenticating users and devices in a network. PKI enables secure communication between users and devices. The certification authority (CA) in PKI is responsible for issuing the key pair and digital certificate. The trust of PKI stands on CA but nowadays many articles are reported such as DDoS attack to Digicert Sdn (Axon in Privacy-awareness in blockchain-based pki, 2015) resulting fake certificates issued by CA. On the other hand, the traditional PKI system is pruned to single point failure where the corruption of CA causes failure of the whole network. The blockchain based PKI removes the barrier present in the traditional PKI system by decentralizing the certificate authority. This will enable the interested nodes to generate their own key pair private key prkey and public key pbkey. In this research paper, we have proposed a block chain based PKI system for issuing and validation the key pairs and certificates for a peer to peer (P2P) network. The proposed system is implemented in Geth an open Blockchain environment and the smart contract has been deployed in solidity language.

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  1. Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, India

    Amrutanshu Panigrahi, Ajit Kumar Nayak & Rourab Paul

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, Institute of Technical Education and Research(ITER), Siksha 'O' Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

    Jyoti Prakash Sahoo

  2. School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE), Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India

    Asis Kumar Tripathy

  3. Center for Forensic Science, School of Mathematical and Physical Science, University of Technology Sydney, Broadway, NSW, Australia

    Manoranjan Mohanty

  4. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE), Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Kuan-Ching Li

  5. Department. of Computer Science and Information Technology, Institute of Technical Education and Research(ITER), Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, India

    Ajit Kumar Nayak

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Panigrahi, A., Nayak, A.K., Paul, R. (2022). A Blockchain Based PKI System for Peer to Peer Network. In: Sahoo, J.P., Tripathy, A.K., Mohanty, M., Li, KC., Nayak, A.K. (eds) Advances in Distributed Computing and Machine Learning. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 302. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4807-6_9

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