Future Internet (Apr 2020)

Blockchain Behavioral Traffic Model as a Tool to Influence Service IT Security

  • Vasiliy Elagin,
  • Anastasia Spirkina,
  • Andrei Levakov,
  • Ilya Belozertsev

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/fi12040068
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 4
p. 68

Abstract

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The present article describes the behavioral model of blockchain services; their reliability is confirmed on the basis of experimental data. The authors identify the main technical characteristics and features associated with data transmission through the network. The authors determine the network scheme, working with blockchain transactions and the dependence of network characteristics on application parameters. They analyze the application of this model for the detection of the blockchain service and the possibility of the existing security mechanisms of this technology being evaded. Furthermore, the article offers recommendations for hiding the blockchain traffic profile to significantly complicate its identification in the data network.

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