ShadowEth: Private Smart Contract on Public Blockchain

• Published in: Journal of computer science and technology Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 542 - 556
• Main Authors: Yuan, Rui, Xia, Yu-Bin, Chen, Hai-Bo, Zang, Bin-Yu, Xie, Jan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.05.2018; Springer; Springer Nature B.V; Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China%Cryptape Inc., Hangzhou 310007, China
• Subjects: Artificial Intelligence; Availability; Blockchain; Communications systems; Computer Science; Contracts; Cryptography; Data Structures and Information Theory; Feasibility studies; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Miners; Privacy; Regular Paper; Software Engineering; Theory of Computation; Verification; privacy; blockchain; smart contract; hardware-enclave; trusted execution environment; execution; blockchain,smart; environment,hardware-enclave; contract,privacy,trusted

Blockchain is becoming popular as a distributed and reliable ledger which allows distrustful parties to transact safely without trusting third parties. Emerging blockchain systems like Ethereum support smart contracts where miners can run arbitrary user-defined programs. However, one of the biggest...