Malicious peer identification for database block sequence
US11943237B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | May 24, 2019 |
| Grant date | Mar 26, 2024 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 5, 2041 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L9/50
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by each of one or more peripheral peers of a blockchain network, a sequence of new blocks from an orderer peer, calculating hashes for the sequence of new blocks, adding the hashes to a merkle tree, determining the merkle tree is different than merkle trees from a majority of peripheral peers, determining that one or more blocks that correspond to the different merkle trees from the majority of peripheral peers are different from the sequence of new blocks, and in response ceasing committing blocks to the blockchain network.
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