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

Vasiliy Elagin, Anastasia Spirkina, Andrei Levakov and Ilya Belozertsev
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Vasiliy Elagin: Infocommunication Systems Department, The Bonch-Bruevich Saint-Petersburg State University of Telecommunications, 193232 Saint Petersburg, Russia
Anastasia Spirkina: Infocommunication Systems Department, The Bonch-Bruevich Saint-Petersburg State University of Telecommunications, 193232 Saint Petersburg, Russia
Andrei Levakov: Center Macro-regional Branch or PJSC Rostelecom, 123298 Moscow, Russia
Ilya Belozertsev: Infocommunication Systems Department, The Bonch-Bruevich Saint-Petersburg State University of Telecommunications, 193232 Saint Petersburg, Russia

Future Internet, 2020, vol. 12, issue 4, 1-12

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: blockchain; distributed registry; security; data protection; network; decentralized systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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