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VSSB-Raft: A Secure and Efficient Zero Trust Consensus Algorithm for Blockchain

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Chi Zhang, Bei GongAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Volume 20, Issue 2

Article No.: 34, Pages 1 - 22

https://doi.org/10.1145/3611308

Published: 09 January 2024 Publication History

Abstract

To solve the problems of vote forgery and malicious election of candidate nodes in the Raft consensus algorithm, we combine zero trust with the Raft consensus algorithm and propose a secure and efficient consensus algorithm -Verifiable Secret Sharing Byzantine Fault Tolerance Raft Consensus Algorithm (VSSB-Raft). The VSSB-Raft consensus algorithm realizes zero trust through the supervisor node and secret sharing algorithm without the invisible trust between nodes required by the algorithm. Meanwhile, the VSSB-Raft consensus algorithm uses the SM2 signature algorithm to realize the characteristics of zero trust requiring authentication before data use. In addition, by introducing the NDN network, we redesign the communication between nodes and guarantee the communication quality among nodes. The VSSB-Raft consensus algorithm proposed in this paper can make the algorithm Byzantine fault tolerant by setting a threshold for secret sharing while maintaining the algorithm’s complexity to be O(n). Experiments show that the VSSB-Raft consensus algorithm is secure and efficient with high throughput and low consensus latency.

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https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSSR61934.2024.00055
Bai FLi FShen TZeng KZhang XZhang C(2024)RaBFT: an improved Byzantine fault tolerance consensus algorithm based on raftThe Journal of Supercomputing10.1007/s11227-024-06284-6Online publication date: 12-Jun-2024
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-024-06284-6

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VSSB-Raft: A Secure and Efficient Zero Trust Consensus Algorithm for Blockchain
1. Security and privacy
  1. Network security
    1. Security protocols

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ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks Volume 20, Issue 2

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DOI:10.1145/3618080

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Published: 09 January 2024

Online AM: 08 August 2023

Accepted: 25 July 2023

Revised: 06 March 2023

Received: 31 August 2022

Published in TOSN Volume 20, Issue 2

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Yunnan Key Laboratory of Blockchain Application Technology
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National Natural Science Foundation of China
Yunnan Reserve Talents of Young and Middle-Aged Academic and Technical Leaders
Yunnan Young Top Talents of Ten thousand Plan

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Yang STan PFu H(2024)Improved Raft consensus algorithm based on NSGA-II and K-Means++2024 10th International Symposium on System Security, Safety, and Reliability (ISSSR)10.1109/ISSSR61934.2024.00055(383-390)Online publication date: 16-Mar-2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSSR61934.2024.00055
Bai FLi FShen TZeng KZhang XZhang C(2024)RaBFT: an improved Byzantine fault tolerance consensus algorithm based on raftThe Journal of Supercomputing10.1007/s11227-024-06284-6Online publication date: 12-Jun-2024
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-024-06284-6

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