DARPA wants to take a look at blockchain’s security rules

FedScoop: Blockchain continues to draw interest from across the federal government for its potential to dramatically optimize data operations, but the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to take a deeper look what security challenges could come with adopting the technology.

Defense officials are particularly interested in the “permissionless” rules that allow open user access to a blockchain to assess the accuracy of the information on it, also known as distributed consensus protocols.

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