Solving Global Cybersecurity Problems by Connecting Trust Using Blockchain

Abstract

This publication explores global problem areas where properties offered by Blockchain provide workable solutions for the existing widely unsolved problems of Accountability, Traceability, Identification, Visibility vs. Privacy, and Connection of Non-Deterministic to Deterministic timed events. Using BlockChain-based transactions, we demonstrate that operations related to trust are reducible to five directly implementable cryptographic actions, which then create relationships to five categories of trust that we define in this document. The solution outlined will take the approach that the identified global problems will be solved by blockchain as cybersecurity of the future moves in a direction of individualized transactional-based security & privacy. Developers and organizations looking to implement new solutions or integrate blockchain into existing applications would be interested in this publication. Methods described provide workable solutions for implementing trust relationships using blockchain for positive use cases which can be related directly to cyber security industry solutions.