Title of article :
Analysis of Revocation Mechanisms for Blockchain Applications and a Proposed Model Based in Self-Sovereign Identity
Author/Authors :
Richter Vidal, Fernando Faculty of Science and Technology - University of Fernando Pessoa – Praça de de Abril, Porto, Portugal , Gouveia, Feliz Faculty of Science and Technology - University of Fernando Pessoa – Praça de de Abril, Porto, Portugal , Soares, Christophe Faculty of Science and Technology - University of Fernando Pessoa – Praça de de Abril, Porto, Portugal
Abstract :
The blockchain's immutability has allowed previously centralized operations to operate in a
new way. The possibility of applications having a new architecture is given thanks to the
innovative properties of the technology, which brought alternative control designs for
distributed systems and allowed applications to work without the need for a central
controlling point. The expansion of blockchain to other areas beyond cryptocurrencies has
shown the need for applications to implement solutions to deal with corrective operations.
Blockchain 3.0 applications bring new solutions for business needs. However, as opposed to
immutability, the revoking functionality is much more complex to be implemented in this
type of architecture, but paramount to applications resilience, allowing faulty or invalid
information to be revoked, ensuring thus that the blockchain can still be trusted. This work
assesses and discusses revocation mechanisms to contribute to the technical feasibility of
several applications, which require corrective operations. We present a model in the academic
area, which can be replicated for other types of systems in other areas.
Keywords :
Blockchain , Blockchain Revocation , Blockchain Applications , Self-Sovereign Identity , Decentralized Identifiers
Journal title :
Journal of Information Technology Management (JITM)