Exploring the redaction mechanisms of mutable blockchains: A comprehensive survey

D Zhang, J Le, X Lei, T Xiang… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Blockchain technology has attracted tremendous interest from both industry and academia. It
is typically used to record a public history of transactions (eg, payment/smart contract data) …

Blockchain mutability: Challenges and proposed solutions

E Politou, F Casino, E Alepis… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Blockchain's evolution during the past decade is astonishing: from bitcoin to over 2.000
altcoins, and from decentralised electronic payments to transactions programmable by smart …

Verifiable and redactable blockchains with fully editing operations

J Shen, X Chen, Z Liu, W Susilo - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Blockchain technology has been highly praised for its immutability, attracting considerable
attention in the academic and industrial community. However, since permanent storage in …

Fine‐Grained and Controllably Redactable Blockchain with Harmful Data Forced Removal

H Hou, S Hao, J Yuan, S Xu… - Security and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Notoriously, immutability is one of the most striking properties of blockchains. As the data
contained in blockchains may be compelled to redact for personal and legal reasons …

Prbfpt: A practical redactable blockchain framework with a public trapdoor

W Dai, J Liu, Y Zhou, KKR Choo, X Xie… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While blockchain is known to support open and transparent data exchange, partly due to its
nontamperability property, it can also be (ab) used to facilitate the spreading of fake and …

Accountable and fine-grained controllable rewriting in blockchains

S Xu, X Huang, J Yuan, Y Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Most blockchains are designed to be immutable such that an object, eg, a block or a
transaction, is persisted once it has been registered. However, blockchain immutability …

Modifiable public blockchains using truncated hashing and sidechains

NY Lee, J Yang, MMH Onik, CS Kim - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The immutability of the blockchain technology facilitates it to establish a general consensus
in a trustless environment, enabling a wide range of new applications, including distributed …

Blockchain: Trends and future

W Yang, S Garg, A Raza, D Herbert, B Kang - … and Acquisition for …, 2018 - Springer
Blockchain has attracted a great deal of attention due to its secure way of distributing
transactions between different nodes without a trust entity, and tracking the validity of data …

Redactable blockchain: Comprehensive review, mechanisms, challenges, open issues and future research directions

SM Abd Ali, MN Yusoff, HF Hasan - Future Internet, 2023 - mdpi.com
The continuous advancements of blockchain applications impose constant improvements on
their technical features. Particularly immutability, a highly secure blockchain attribute …

Redactable blockchain supporting supervision and self-management

Y Jia, SF Sun, Y Zhang, Z Liu, D Gu - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Asia …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The immutability of blockchain is crucial to the security of many blockchain applications,
while it is still desired or even legally obliged to allow for redacting the contents of …