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ChronoEOS: Configuration Control System Based on EOSIO Blockchain for On-Running Forensic Analysis

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Blockchain and Applications, 4th International Congress (BLOCKCHAIN 2022)

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Abstract

In almost any industrial field, there are critical devices and elements that must be trusted. Therefore, it is meaningful to make a secure and reliable record of the events occurring in that environment, which may be used for a possible future forensic investigation in an industrial environment. Blockchain technology covers this need. This project presents ChronoEOS, an application that allows different versions of critical files to be stored securely and immutably, using EOSIO’s blockchain technology. In this way, changes to the configuration files of a robotic arm are stored in the blockchain. In addition, a REST API has been deployed that allows the authorized user to make changes to the corresponding file by interacting with a Smart Contract deployed on the blockchain. Finally, there is a Lookout Agent pointing to the files that are being monitored. This code detects when the version stored in the blockchain is different from the original file, updating one or the other depending on where the last change has been applied.

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    https://eos.io/news/dpos-bft-pipelined-byzantine-fault-tolerance/.

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    https://developers.eos.io/manuals/eosio.cdt/v1.7/group_multiindex.

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This work has been partially supported by the Basque Country Government under the ELKARTEK program, project REMEDY (KK-2021/00091), and by the Spanish Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI) under the project ÉGIDA (EXP 00122721/CER-20191012).

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    Jose Alvaro Fernandez-Carrasco, Telmo Egues-Arregui, Francesco Zola & Raul Orduna-Urrutia

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  1. Departamento de Informática y Automática, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

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  2. Parque Tecnológico de la Salud (PTS), Granada, Spain

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Fernandez-Carrasco, J.A., Egues-Arregui, T., Zola, F., Orduna-Urrutia, R. (2023). ChronoEOS: Configuration Control System Based on EOSIO Blockchain for On-Running Forensic Analysis. In: Prieto, J., Benítez Martínez, F.L., Ferretti, S., Arroyo Guardeño, D., Tomás Nevado-Batalla, P. (eds) Blockchain and Applications, 4th International Congress . BLOCKCHAIN 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 595. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21229-1_4

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