Digital identity on blockchain at national level
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https://doi.org/10.14422/icade.i101.y2017.006Keywords:
asymmetric cryptography, hash function, blockchain, distributed ledger, digital identityAbstract
This paper describes the fundamentals of asymmetric cryptography needed to understand the concept of blockchain as a sequence of data blocks, and its registry expression, distributed-ledger technology. Some advantages and cases of use of blockchain are exposed thereafter, as smart contracting, digital identity uses, with mention of a foreseen Spanish semipublic blockchain.References
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