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Distributed Ledger Technology for IoT: Parasite Chain Attacks

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arxiv 1904.00996 v2 pith:LISOJBH4 submitted 2019-03-21 cs.DC cs.CR

Distributed Ledger Technology for IoT: Parasite Chain Attacks

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keywords ledgerdistributedanalyseattackattackschainiotaparasite
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Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) based Distributed Ledgers can be useful in a number of applications in the IoT domain. A distributed ledger should serve as an immutable and irreversible record of transactions, however, a DAG structure is a more complicated mathematical object than its blockchain counterparts, and as a result, providing guarantees of immutability and irreversibility is more involved. In this paper, we analyse a commonly discussed attack scenario known as a parasite chain attack for the IOTA Foundation DAG based ledger. We analyse the efficacy of IOTA core MCMC algorithm using a matrix model and present an extension which improves the ledger resistance to these attacks.

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