
Exploring Criminal Smart Contracts: Challenges and Solutions
Delve into the realm of criminal smart contracts with insights on the differences between smart contracts and criminal smart contracts, challenges faced, and the three main types of associated crimes – leakage of secret information, theft of private keys, and calling card crimes.
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The Ring of Gyges: Investigating the Future of Criminal Smart Contracts Mooriah Rowser
Agenda Smart Contract vs. Criminal Smart Contract CSC Challenges Three Types of Crimes Countermeasures Summary
Smart Contract vs. Criminal Smart Contract Smart Contract: a generic term denoting programs written in Turing-complete cryptocurrency scripting languages Criminal smart contracts(CSC): can facilitate leakage of confidential information, theft of cryptographic keys, and various real world crimes(murder, arson, terrorism)
CSC Challenges Commission- Fair Limited opcodes
Three Types of Crime Leakage / Sale of secret documents Theft of private keys Calling Card crimes (physical crimes)
Leakage / Sale of Secret Documents Darkleaks Vulnerabilities Generic Public Leakage CSC
Theft of Private keys Key Theft Key Theft Naive Flaws and Solutions Target and state exposure zk-SNARK
Calling Card Crimes Calling Card: is an unpredictable feature of a to-be-executed crime Calling cards alongside authenticated data feeds, can support a general framework for a wide variety of CSCs.
Countermeasures Blacklisting Trustee-tracing Trustee-neutralizable smart contracts
Summary Talked about the difference between smart contracts and criminal smart contracts Challenges faced in CSC Three types of crime associated with CSC; leakage of secret information, theft of private keys, and calling card crimes