Towards a Secure Cross-Blockchain Smart Contract Architecture

Rawya Mars; Saoussen Cheikhrouhou; Slim Kallel; Mohamed Sellami; Ahmed Hadj Kacem

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-31108-6_10

Towards a Secure Cross-Blockchain Smart Contract Architecture

Rawya Mars, Saoussen Cheikhrouhou, Slim Kallel, Mohamed Sellami, Ahmed Hadj Kacem

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

Abstract

With the speed rise of heterogeneous Blockchain (BC) platforms, interoperability became a critical area of research barrer for a variety of use cases, ranging from supply chain to healthcare. Consequently, a number of BC interoperability solutions were proposed to overcome these issues. One of these is Bifröst, a notary-based BC interoperability Application Programming Interface (API) which enables users or existing applications to interact seamlessly with multiple BCs. An early prototype of Bifröst was built, which proved its feasibility, nonetheless, it failed to allow interactions with Smart Contracts (SCs) across BCs. In this context, we present in this paper an extension of Bifröst architecture enabling secure cross-BC SCs using the Trusted Execution Environment (TEE). The proposed architecture is also fault tolerant by means of a logging module that facilitates the recovery of partially completed transactions in case of a crash.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Risks and Security of Internet and Systems - 17th International Conference, CRiSIS 2022, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Slim Kallel, Mohamed Jmaiel, Ahmed Hadj Kacem, Mohammad Zulkernine, Frédéric Cuppens, Nora Cuppens
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	127-132
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9783031311079
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31108-6_10
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2023
Event	17th International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems, CRiSIS 2022 - Sousse, Tunisia Duration: 7 Dec 2022 → 9 Dec 2022

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	13857 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	17th International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems, CRiSIS 2022
Country/Territory	Tunisia
City	Sousse
Period	7/12/22 → 9/12/22

Keywords

Blockchain (BC)
Fault tolerance
Interoperability
Security
Smart Contract (SC)

Access to Document

10.1007/978-3-031-31108-6_10

Cite this

Mars, R., Cheikhrouhou, S., Kallel, S., Sellami, M., & Kacem, A. H. (2023). Towards a Secure Cross-Blockchain Smart Contract Architecture. In S. Kallel, M. Jmaiel, A. Hadj Kacem, M. Zulkernine, F. Cuppens, & N. Cuppens (Eds.), Risks and Security of Internet and Systems - 17th International Conference, CRiSIS 2022, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 127-132). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13857 LNCS). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31108-6_10

Mars, Rawya ; Cheikhrouhou, Saoussen ; Kallel, Slim et al. / Towards a Secure Cross-Blockchain Smart Contract Architecture. Risks and Security of Internet and Systems - 17th International Conference, CRiSIS 2022, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Slim Kallel ; Mohamed Jmaiel ; Ahmed Hadj Kacem ; Mohammad Zulkernine ; Frédéric Cuppens ; Nora Cuppens. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023. pp. 127-132 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Mars, R, Cheikhrouhou, S, Kallel, S, Sellami, M & Kacem, AH 2023, Towards a Secure Cross-Blockchain Smart Contract Architecture. in S Kallel, M Jmaiel, A Hadj Kacem, M Zulkernine, F Cuppens & N Cuppens (eds), Risks and Security of Internet and Systems - 17th International Conference, CRiSIS 2022, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 13857 LNCS, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 127-132, 17th International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems, CRiSIS 2022, Sousse, Tunisia, 7/12/22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31108-6_10

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Risks and Security of Internet and Systems - 17th International Conference, CRiSIS 2022, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Slim Kallel; Mohamed Jmaiel; Ahmed Hadj Kacem; Mohammad Zulkernine; Frédéric Cuppens; Nora Cuppens. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2023. p. 127-132 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13857 LNCS).

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Mars R, Cheikhrouhou S, Kallel S, Sellami M, Kacem AH. Towards a Secure Cross-Blockchain Smart Contract Architecture. In Kallel S, Jmaiel M, Hadj Kacem A, Zulkernine M, Cuppens F, Cuppens N, editors, Risks and Security of Internet and Systems - 17th International Conference, CRiSIS 2022, Revised Selected Papers. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. 2023. p. 127-132. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-31108-6_10