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WiP: Criminal Smart Contract for Private Key Theft in End to End Encrypted Applications

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Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin [1], Ethereum [2] are becoming very popular among people due to their properties such as pseudo-anonymity which can be used for both good and bad. In this paper, we show how smart contracts can be used to build criminal applications. Here we construct an application that allows contractors to get the stolen private key of a target user from perpetrators in an end to end encrypted message application.

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  1. Aditya Empress Towers, Aziz Bagh Colony, Shaikpet, Hyderabad, 500008, Telangana, India

    Priyanka Pal, Sudharsana K J L & Rohith Balaji S

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  1. Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Kaiserslautern and Saarbrücken, Germany

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  2. Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology, Hyderabad, India

    N. V. Narendra Kumar

  3. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

    Rudrapatna K. Shyamasundar

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Pal, P., K J L, S., S, R.B. (2019). WiP: Criminal Smart Contract for Private Key Theft in End to End Encrypted Applications. In: Garg, D., Kumar, N., Shyamasundar, R. (eds) Information Systems Security. ICISS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11952. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36945-3_2

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