A prime field is a finite one with a prime number of elements. It has specific rules for addition and multiplication, and each nonzero element in the field has an inverse. Addition and multiplication operations are performed modulo p, that is, prime.
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- About Packt
- Contributors
- Preface
- Blockchain 101
- The growth of blockchain technology
- Distributed systems
- The history of blockchain and Bitcoin
- Types of blockchain
- Consensus
- CAP theorem and blockchain
- Summary
- Decentralization
- Understanding How Ethereum Works
- Smart Contracts
- Symmetric Cryptography
- Public Key Cryptography
- Asymmetric cryptography
- Public and private keys
- RSA
- Discrete logarithm problem in ECC
- Hash functions
- RSA digital signature algorithm
- Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm
- Financial markets and trading
- Summary
- Getting Started with web3.js
- Introducing Bitcoin
- Building a Wallet Service
- Alternative Coins
- Development Tools and Frameworks
- Building a Betting App
- Hyperledger
- Projects under Hyperledger
- Hyperledger as a protocol
- The reference architecture
- Fabric
- Hyperledger Fabric
- Membership services
- Blockchain services
- Consensus services
- Distributed ledger
- The peer to peer protocol
- Ledger storage
- Chaincode services
- Components of the fabric
- Peers
- Orderer nodes
- Clients
- Channels
- World state database
- Transactions
- Membership Service Provider (MSP)
- Smart contracts
- Crypto service provider
- Applications on blockchain
- Chaincode implementation
- The application model
- Consensus in Hyperledger Fabric
- The transaction life cycle in Hyperledger Fabric
- Sawtooth Lake
- Corda
- Hyperledger Fabric
- Summary
- Alternative Blockchains
- Blockchain - Outside of Currencies
- Scalability and Other Challenges
- Building a Consortium Blockchain
- Current Landscape and What's Next
- Emerging trends
- Application-specific blockchains (ASBCs)
- Enterprise-grade blockchains
- Private blockchains
- Start-ups
- Strong research interest
- Standardization
- Enhancements
- Real-world implementations
- Consortia
- Answers to technical challenges
- Convergence
- Education of blockchain technology
- Employment
- Cryptoeconomics
- Research in cryptography
- New programming languages
- Hardware research and development
- Research in formal methods and security
- Alternatives to blockchains
- Interoperability efforts
- Blockchain as a Service
- Efforts to reduce electricity consumption
- Other challenges
- Blockchain research
- Notable projects
- Miscellaneous tools
- Convergence with other industries
- Future
- Summary
- Emerging trends
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