A Survey on Ethereum Systems Security
By Huashan Chen, Marcus Pendleton, Laurent L. Njilla, Shouhuai Xu. ACM Computing Surveys, 2019
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Blockchain technology is believed by many to be a game changer in many application domains. While the first generation of blockchain technology (i.e., Blockchain 1.0) is almost exclusively used for cryptocurrency, the second generation (i.e., Blockchain 2.0), as represented by Ethereum, is an open and decentralized platform enabling a new paradigm of computing—Decentralized Applications (DApps) running on top of blockchains. The rich applications and semantics of DApps inevitably introduce many security vulnerabilities, which have no counterparts in pure cryptocurrency systems like Bitcoin. Since Ethereum is a new, yet complex, system, it is imperative to have a systematic and comprehensive understanding on its security from a holistic perspective, which was previously unavailable in the literature. To the best of our knowledge, the present survey, which can also be used as a tutorial, fills this void. We systematize three aspects of Ethereum systems security: vulnerabilities, attacks, and defenses. We draw insights into vulnerability root causes, attack consequences, and defense capabilities, which shed light on future research directions.
Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Signal Processing
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- Blockchain-based food supply chain traceability: a case study in the dairy sector (2020, background): “For more information about the security of Ethereum and its smart contract framework, the interested reader may refer to Xiao et al. (2020) and Chen et al. (2019), respectively.”
- Empirical Review of Automated Analysis Tools on 47,587 Ethereum Smart Contracts (2019, result): “f Honeypots as defined by Torreset al. [41] (since Ether becomes locked, except for the attacker). Our findings suggest new categories comparable to those proposed in the recent survey by Chen et al. [7] (available online on August 13, 2019). 4.2 Threats to Validity A potential threat to the interna”