Introduction

The Blockchain and Smart Contracts Discussion Group was launched in July 2016. This report from the group offers recommendations and observations to Kantara Initiative covering the following scope:

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Certificate Transparency

...owner: Scott S...

Certificate Transparency is an experimental protocol for publicly logging the existence of Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates as they are issued or observed, in a manner that allows anyone to audit certificate authority (CA) activity and notice the issuance of suspect certificates as well as to audit the certificate logs themselves.  The idea is that clients should refuse to honor certificates that do not appear in a log, effectively forcing CAs to add all issued certificates to the logs.  Uses hash chaining to prove the order of events and the existence of transactions.

CommonAccord

...owner: Jim...

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(Kathleen takes writing this one up as an assignment. She'll float some text to the list first.)