Cssp: The Consortium Blockchain Model for Improving the Trustworthiness of Network Software Services

Zhou, Lei; Wang, Guojun; Cui, Tongshuai; Xing, Xiaofei

doi:10.1109/ispa/iucc.2017.00024

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“…In the cloud computing department, the authors Zhou et al proposed a Clean-room Security Service Protocol based on a consortium blockchain that monitors the implementation of illegal software on the user's end in a cloud computing setting. The authors claim that their protocol reduces the security threats of the network and has major potential in trusted network computing systems [29]. Next on, the authors Sharma et al proposed a blockchain-overcloud solution designed for cloud service operators so they can share their computing resources through smart contracts implementation [30].…”

Section: A Blockchain and Network Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the Intersection of Consortium Blockchain Technologies and Multi-Access Edge Computing: Chronicles of a Proof of Concept Demo

Vera-Rivera

Hossain

Refaey

2022

IEEE Open J. Commun. Soc.

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The efficient administration of network resources in Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) is an active research topic these days. Task sharing, in particular, is one of the fundamental problems regarding MEC architectures although the existing literature approaches the topic mostly from the mobile user point of view. In this article, we present the chronicles of EdgeChain network, a proof of concept demo of a blockchain-based model for secure and private task sharing collaboration specially designed for edge computing servers. EdgeChain operates on a decentralized approach that counts on the blockchain services provided by the Hyperledger Fabric platform. The network offers enhanced security features that leverage the permissioned nature of Fabric, more specifically, it relies on Fabric's membership service to validate identities and allowed behavior of participant nodes in the network. This design choice restrains external attackers from interfering with the normal operation of the task sharing scheme. The network also offers enhanced privacy features powered by a smart contract design that makes use of multiple decoupled Fabric channels with separate operation rules, ledgers, and peerto-peer communication networks. This design choice guarantees that the computational tasks circulating in the network are only exposed to servers participating in task sharing services. The trait prevents other servers in the network to have access to private tasks and their data. The article goes through the multiple stages of the design and construction process of the proof of concept demo, from the blockchain-based task sharing framework and system model, all the way to the implementation details of the network.

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Section: A Blockchain and Network Architecturementioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the Intersection of Consortium Blockchain Technologies and Multi-Access Edge Computing: Chronicles of a Proof of Concept Demo

Vera-Rivera

Hossain

Refaey

2022

IEEE Open J. Commun. Soc.

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“…Obviously, an untrusted computing environment cannot ensure a safe transaction. To deploy and use software in a secure and tamper-resistant manner, Zhou et al [73] proposed a Cleanroom Security Service Protocol (CSSP), which is actually a bilateral agreement based on a consortium blockchain framework, show in Fig. 8.…”

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Blockchain-based trust management in cloud computing systems: a taxonomy, review and future directions

Wu²,

Cao

et al. 2021

J Cloud Comp

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Through virtualization and resource integration, cloud computing has expanded its service area and offers a better user experience than the traditional platforms, along with its business operation model bringing huge economic and social benefits. However, a large amount of evidence shows that cloud computing is facing with serious security and trust crisis, and building a trust-enabled transaction environment has become its key factor. The traditional cloud trust model usually adopts a centralized architecture, which causes large management overhead, network congestion and even single point of failure. Furthermore, due to a lack of transparency and traceability, trust evaluation results cannot be fully recognized by all participants. Blockchain is a new and promising decentralized framework and distributed computing paradigm. Its unique features in operating rules and traceability of records ensure the integrity, undeniability and security of the transaction data. Therefore, blockchain is very suitable for constructing a distributed and decentralized trust architecture. This paper carries out a comprehensive survey on blockchain-based trust approaches in cloud computing systems. Based on a novel cloud-edge trust management framework and a double-blockchain structure based cloud transaction model, it identifies the open challenges and gives directions for future research in this field.

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“…However, it depends on users' own subjective judgment to decide whether the obtained services are secure or not, thereby causing many subjective controversies. Zhou et al [24] proposed a protocol named CSSP (cleanroom security service protocol) based on the consortium blockchain to provide network software services. Instead of using the PoW algorithm, it uses an arbitration node to mediate and record transactions which saves a lot in mining.…”

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“…Recently, the rise of blockchain technologies [18,19] inspires researchers for brand new solutions. With the excellent features of openness, decentralization, and tamper resistance, the blockchain techniques have been used as the underlying security fabric for a bunch of emerging service provisioning and sharing systems [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]. These approaches leverage the blockchain to release service information so as to ensure that the clients can obtain services correctly.…”

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Towards Secure Network Computing Services for Lightweight Clients Using Blockchain

Wang

Yang

et al. 2018

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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The emerging network computing technologies have significantly extended the abilities of the resource-constrained IoT devices through the network-based service sharing techniques. However, such a flexible and scalable service provisioning paradigm brings increased security risks to terminals due to the untrustworthy exogenous service codes loading from the open network. Many existing security approaches are unsuitable for IoT environments due to the high difficulty of maintenance or the dependencies upon extra resources like specific hardware. Fortunately, the rise of blockchain technology has facilitated the development of service sharing methods and, at the same time, it appears a viable solution to numerous security problems. In this paper, we propose a novel blockchain-based secure service provisioning mechanism for protecting lightweight clients from insecure services in network computing scenarios. We introduce the blockchain to maintain all the validity states of the off-chain services and edge service providers for the IoT terminals to help them get rid of untrusted or discarded services through provider identification and service verification. In addition, we take advantage of smart contracts which can be triggered by the lightweight clients to help them check the validities of service providers and service codes according to the on-chain transactions, thereby reducing the direct overhead on the IoT devices. Moreover, the adoptions of the consortium blockchain and the proof of authority consensus mechanism also help to achieve a high throughput. The theoretical security analysis and evaluation results show that our approach helps the lightweight clients get rid of untrusted edge service providers and insecure services effectively with acceptable latency and affordable costs.

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Cssp: The Consortium Blockchain Model for Improving the Trustworthiness of Network Software Services

Cited by 5 publications

References 19 publications

Exploring the Intersection of Consortium Blockchain Technologies and Multi-Access Edge Computing: Chronicles of a Proof of Concept Demo

Exploring the Intersection of Consortium Blockchain Technologies and Multi-Access Edge Computing: Chronicles of a Proof of Concept Demo

Blockchain-based trust management in cloud computing systems: a taxonomy, review and future directions

Towards Secure Network Computing Services for Lightweight Clients Using Blockchain

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