On Immutability of Blockchains
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European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET)
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Recently we presented a single-party cryptographic timestamping mechanism based on proof-of-sequential-work, which we proved secure in the universal composability framework [16]. This paper describes this construction and its security claims and uses it to construct a multi-party permissioned blockchain protocol and show that it achieves an immutability notion. Finally we discuss applications of this protocol, including unpermissioned blockchains, and how these may benefit.
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blockchain, cryptographic immutability, cryptographic timestamping, proof-of-sequential-work