Authentication using Smart Contracts in a Blockchain
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
Master Thesis
Master Thesis
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Computer systems and networks (MPCSN), MSc
Publicerad
2018
Författare
Borgsten, Eric
Jiang, Oskar
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A challenge with user authentication using passwords is to ensure that they are kept in a safe storage. The most commonly used approach to achieve this is to have a centralized storage with high security measurements but this puts this storage at high risk of being targeted in an attack. We propose an authentication method using a Smart Contracts in a blockchain as a public key storage to solve this issue. This enables same security standards as traditional authentication, with increased availability and usability. Our results show that this method of authentication is a viable alternative to existing ones.
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Data- och informationsvetenskap , Computer and Information Science