Blockchains: A Handbook on Fundamentals, Platforms and Applications
暫譯: 區塊鏈：基礎、平台與應用手冊

本手冊選擇了區塊鏈的基礎面向、安全分析、平台和應用，共分為四個部分。第一部分介紹了基本的構建塊，如分散式計算和密碼學。共識算法作為區塊鏈協議的基本支柱被介紹。各種密碼學工具，如雜湊函數、數位簽章和承諾方案也被介紹。討論了用於隱私保護和安全設計的先進密碼學技術，如零知識協議、秘密分享和可驗證隨機函數。

本手冊的第二部分包含了流行的區塊鏈設計和平台。介紹了比特幣（Bitcoin）、以太坊（Ethereum）、門羅幣（Monero）、Tendermint 和 Algorand 的架構。第三部分討論了各種重要問題，如可擴展性和安全性。安全設計挑戰、安全漏洞及其分析也在此部分中進行了討論。手冊的最後一部分探討了區塊鏈的各種應用，包括供應鏈、身份和憑證管理、物聯網（IoT）、數據共享、電子投票、電子治理、電子健康、智慧城市和工業4.0。本手冊還包括了研究挑戰和未來工作的方向。

這本綜合參考書針對開始探索區塊鏈的學生和研究人員。從事區塊鏈安全和應用的專業人士將會發現這本手冊是一個有價值的參考資料。

Sushmita Ruj is Senior Lecturer at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW, Sydney. She is also affiliated with UNSW Institute for Cyber Security (IFCYBER). Her research interests are in applied cryptography, blockchains, cybersecurity and data privacy. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and delivered over 90 technical lectures around the world. Before joining UNSW, she was a Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO's Data61, an Associate Professor at Indian Statistical Institute and an Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, IIT, Indore. She worked at Lund University Sweden and University of Ottawa, Canada. She was a visiting researcher/faculty at NTU, Singapore, KDDI R&D Labs, Japan, INRIA, France, Kyushu University, Japan and intern at Microsoft Research Labs, India. She was a member of the "Blockchain For Cybersecurity" working group of the National Blockchain Roadmap of Australia and the Blockchain working group founded by the Reserve Bankof India. Sushmita serves on the Editorial board of Elsevier Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA) and Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC). She served as a Program Co-Chair for ACISP 2021 and Indocrypt 2019. She won best paper awards at ISPA 2007, IEEE PIMRC 2011 and IEEE ANTS 17. She received Samsung GRO award, NetApp Faculty Fellowship, Cisco University Research Grant, grant from IBM Research and lead a Cybersecurity Cooperative Research Centre (CSCRC) project which is a NSW iAWARD'22 Merit Winner. Sushmita is a Senior member of ACM and IEEE. She received her B.E. degree from Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, India and master's and Ph.D. from Indian Statistical Institute, India, all in Computer Science.
Salil Kanhere is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW Sydney. He is also affiliated with CISRO's Data61, the Cybersecurity Cooperative Research Centre (CSCRC) and the UNSW Institute forCyber Security (IFCYBER). His research interests span the Internet of Things, cyberphyiscal systems, cybersecurity, blockchain and machine learning. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and is leading several government and industry funded research projects on these topics. He received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award (2020) and the Humboldt Research Fellowship (2014), both from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and ACM, an ACM Distinguished Speaker and an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor. He has held visiting positions at I2R Singapore, Technical University Darmstadt, University of Zurich and Graz University of Technology. He serves as the Editor in Chief of the Ad Hoc Networks journal and as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions On Network and Service Management, Computer Communications, and Pervasive and Mobile Computing. He regularly serves on the organising committee of several IEEE/ACM international conferences. Salil co-authored a book titled Blockchain for Cyberphysical Systems published by Artech House in 2020.
Mauro Conti is Full Professor at the University of Padua, Italy. He is also affiliated with TU Delft and University of Washington, Seattle. He obtained his Ph.D. from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, in 2009. After his Ph.D., he was a Post-Doc Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In 2011 he joined as Assistant Professor at the University of Padua, where he became Associate Professor in 2015, and Full Professor in 2018. He has been Visiting Researcher at GMU, UCLA, UCI, TU Darmstadt, UF, and FIU. He has been awarded with a Marie Curie Fellowship (2012) by the European Commission, and with a Fellowship by the German DAAD (2013). His research is also funded by companies, including Cisco, Intel, and Huawei. His main research interest is in the area of Security and Privacy. In this area, he published more than 550 papers in topmost international peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He is Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Area Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, and has been Associate Editor for several journals, including IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, and IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. He was Program Chair for TRUST 2015, ICISS 2016, WiSec 2017, ACNS 2020, CANS 2021, CSS 2021, WiMob 2023 and ESORICS 2023, and General Chair for SecureComm 2012, SACMAT 2013, NSS 2021 and ACNS 2022. He is Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the AAIA, Senior Member of the ACM, and Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe.

Sushmita Ruj 是悉尼新南威爾士大學（UNSW）計算機科學與工程學院的高級講師。她同時隸屬於 UNSW 網絡安全研究所（IFCYBER）。她的研究興趣包括應用密碼學、區塊鏈、網絡安全和數據隱私。她已發表超過 100 篇經過同行評審的文章，並在全球範圍內進行了超過 90 場技術講座。在加入 UNSW 之前，她曾擔任 CSIRO 的 Data61 高級研究科學家、印度統計學院的副教授以及印度理工學院（IIT）印多爾分校的助理教授。她曾在瑞典隆德大學和加拿大渥太華大學工作。她曾擔任新加坡國立大學、KDDI 研究所（日本）、法國 INRIA、九州大學（日本）的訪問研究員/教職員，並在印度的微軟研究院實習。她是澳大利亞國家區塊鏈路線圖的「區塊鏈與網絡安全」工作組成員，以及由印度儲備銀行成立的區塊鏈工作組成員。Sushmita 目前擔任 Elsevier 信息安全與應用期刊（JISA）和普遍與移動計算（PMC）的編輯委員會成員。她曾擔任 ACISP 2021 和 Indocrypt 2019 的程序共同主席。她在 ISPA 2007、IEEE PIMRC 2011 和 IEEE ANTS 17 獲得最佳論文獎。她獲得了三星 GRO 獎、NetApp 教職員獎學金、思科大學研究獎助金、IBM 研究的獎助金，並主導了一個網絡安全合作研究中心（CSCRC）項目，該項目是 NSW iAWARD'22 的優秀獎得主。Sushmita 是 ACM 和 IEEE 的高級會員。她在印度西孟加拉邦的印度工程科學與技術學院（IIEST）獲得工學學士學位，並在印度統計學院獲得碩士和博士學位，專攻計算機科學。

Salil Kanhere 是悉尼新南威爾士大學（UNSW）計算機科學與工程的教授。他同時隸屬於 CSIRO 的 Data61、網絡安全合作研究中心（CSCRC）和 UNSW 網絡安全研究所（IFCYBER）。他的研究興趣涵蓋物聯網、網絡物理系統、網絡安全、區塊鏈和機器學習。他已發表超過 300 篇經過同行評審的文章，並領導多個政府和產業資助的研究項目。他獲得了德國亞歷山大·馮·洪堡基金會頒發的弗里德里希·威廉·貝塞爾研究獎（2020）和洪堡研究獎學金（2014）。他是 IEEE 和 ACM 的高級會員，ACM 傑出演講者以及 IEEE 計算機學會的傑出訪客。他曾在新加坡 I2R、達姆施塔特工業大學、蘇黎世大學和格拉茨科技大學擔任訪問職位。他擔任 Ad Hoc Networks 期刊的主編，以及 IEEE 網絡與服務管理、計算機通信和普遍與移動計算的副編輯。他定期擔任多個 IEEE/ACM 國際會議的組織委員會成員。Salil 共同撰寫了一本名為《區塊鏈與網絡物理系統》的書籍，於 2020 年由 Artech House 出版。

Mauro Conti 是意大利帕多瓦大學的全職教授。他同時隸屬於代爾夫特理工大學和華盛頓大學（西雅圖）。他於 2009 年在意大利羅馬薩賓納大學獲得博士學位。博士畢業後，他在荷蘭阿姆斯特丹自由大學擔任博士後研究員。2011 年，他加入帕多瓦大學擔任助理教授，於 2015 年晉升為副教授，並於 2018 年成為全職教授。他曾在 GMU、UCLA、UCI、達姆施塔特工業大學、佛羅里達大學和佛羅里達國際大學擔任訪問研究員。他曾獲得歐洲委員會頒發的瑪麗·居里獎學金（2012）和德國 DAAD 獎學金（2013）。他的研究也得到了思科、英特爾和華為等公司的資助。他的主要研究興趣在於安全與隱私。在這一領域，他在頂級國際同行評審期刊和會議上發表了超過 550 篇論文。他是 IEEE 信息取證與安全期刊的主編，IEEE 通信調查與教程的區域主編，並曾擔任多個期刊的副編輯，包括 IEEE 通信調查與教程、IEEE 可靠與安全計算期刊、IEEE 信息取證與安全期刊和 IEEE 網絡與服務管理期刊。他曾擔任 TRUST 2015、ICISS 2016、WiSec 2017、ACNS 2020、CANS 2021、CSS 2021、WiMob 2023 和 ESORICS 2023 的程序主席，以及 SecureComm 2012、SACMAT 2013、NSS 2021 和 ACNS 2022 的總主席。他是 IEEE 會士、AAIA 會士、ACM 高級會員，以及歐洲青年學院的會士。