Secure Collaboration Between Consortiums in Permissioned Blockchains

Juzheng Huang, Qiang Tang, Chunhua Su, Na Ruan

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Abstract

Secure collaboration between consortiums is imperative for the distributed applications deployed on distinct permissioned blockchains or consortium blockchains to provide superior services. The collaboration can be realized by cross-chain transactions processed by cross-chain protocol. The previous two-phase commit and two-phase locking cross-chain protocol are unable to be applied in the scenario where the consortium can be malicious. In this work, we propose the ledger framework of the multiple consortium blockchain systems including the global cross-chain ledger. The cross-chain ledger establishes the order relationship between cross-chain sub-transactions defined in the cross-chain protocol and adopts the hierarchical Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus to tolerate malicious consortiums. We also give two instances of the framework. Based on the cross-chain ledger, we propose the revoke operation in the two-phase commit and two-phase locking cross-chain protocol. We also make the protocol secure in the presence of malicious consortiums and prove its security. Finally, we conduct comprehensive experiments to characterize the performance of the two instances and the cross-chain protocol. The experimental results reveal the efficiency of our scheme even in the presence of malicious consortiums.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProvable and Practical Security - 16th International Conference, ProvSec 2022, Proceedings
EditorsChunpeng Ge, Fuchun Guo
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages228-245
Number of pages18
ISBN (Print)9783031209161
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes
Event16th International Conference on Provable and Practical Security, ProvSec 2022 - Nanjing, China
Duration: Nov 11 2022Nov 12 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13600 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference16th International Conference on Provable and Practical Security, ProvSec 2022
Country/TerritoryChina
CityNanjing
Period11/11/2211/12/22

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

Keywords

  • Cross-chain transaction
  • Permissioned blockchain
  • Protocol

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