Blockchain Mutability: Challenges and Proposed Solutions
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The pith
Various techniques have been proposed to enable selective mutability in blockchains to meet GDPR data erasure rules while aiming to retain security.
A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.
Core claim
This paper surveys multiple methods and techniques for mutable blockchains that have been put forward to satisfy regulatory erasing requirements while preserving blockchains' security, and it discusses their potentials, constraints, and limitations when applied to either permissioned or permissionless blockchains.
What carries the argument
The central mechanisms reviewed are cryptographic primitives and protocol modifications, such as redactable signatures and chameleon-based constructions, that permit targeted content changes or deletions in a blockchain while attempting to keep hash-chain integrity and consensus properties intact.
Load-bearing premise
The reviewed approaches can be applied in practice to permissioned or permissionless blockchains without undermining their security properties.
What would settle it
A working implementation of one of the surveyed mutable techniques that either prevents required data redactions or allows unauthorized tampering would show the methods do not achieve their stated goals.
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Blockchain's evolution during the past decade is astonishing: from bitcoin to over 2.000 altcoins, and from decentralised electronic payments to transactions programmable by smart contracts and complex tokens governed by decentralised organisations. While the new generation of blockchain applications is still evolving, blockchain's technical characteristics are also advancing. Yet, immutability, a hitherto indisputable property according to which blockchain data cannot be edited nor deleted, remains the cornerstone of blockchain's security. Nevertheless, blockchain's immutability is being called into question lately in the light of the new erasing requirements imposed by the GDPR's ``\textit{Right to be Forgotten (RtbF)}'' provision. As the RtbF obliges blockchain data to be editable in order restricted content redactions, modifications or deletions to be applied when requested, blockchains compliance with the regulation is indeed challenging, if not impracticable. Towards resolving this contradiction, various methods and techniques for mutable blockchains have been proposed in an effort to satisfy regulatory erasing requirements while preserving blockchains' security. To this end, this work aims to provide a comprehensive review on the state-of-the-art research approaches, technical workarounds and advanced cryptographic techniques that have been put forward to resolve this conflict and to discuss their potentials, constraints and limitations when applied in the wild to either permissioned or permissionless blockchains.
Editorial analysis
A structured set of objections, weighed in public.
Referee Report
Summary. The manuscript is a literature review surveying state-of-the-art approaches, technical workarounds, and cryptographic techniques proposed to enable mutability in blockchains (redactions, modifications, or deletions) in order to satisfy the GDPR Right to be Forgotten (RtbF) while attempting to retain security properties. It discusses the potentials, constraints, and limitations of these methods when applied to permissioned or permissionless blockchains.
Significance. If the survey is accurate and reasonably comprehensive, it addresses a practically relevant tension between blockchain immutability and regulatory requirements. Its value lies in compiling and contextualizing existing proposals rather than advancing new technical results; this can serve as a reference point for researchers working at the intersection of distributed ledgers and data-protection law.
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- [Abstract] Abstract: the figure '2.000' should be rendered as '2,000' or 'over 2000' for standard numeric formatting.
- [Abstract] Abstract: LaTeX markup such as ``textit{Right to be Forgotten (RtbF)}'' appears in the text and should be cleaned for the published version.
Simulated Author's Rebuttal
We thank the referee for the positive assessment of our survey and for recommending minor revision. The provided summary correctly captures the manuscript's focus on techniques for enabling limited mutability in blockchains to address GDPR Right to be Forgotten requirements while preserving security properties.
Circularity Check
No significant circularity; literature review only
full rationale
The paper is a survey that compiles and discusses existing external proposals for mutable blockchains to address GDPR RtbF requirements. It advances no original derivations, equations, fitted parameters, predictions, or technical constructions whose validity would depend on self-referential steps. All reviewed techniques are attributed to prior literature, and the contribution is descriptive (potentials, constraints, limitations) rather than a chain of claims that reduces to its own inputs. No load-bearing self-citation or ansatz is present.
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