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Produktbild: Investigating Cryptocurrencies

Investigating Cryptocurrencies Understanding, Extracting, and Analyzing Blockchain Evidence

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Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

10.08.2018

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons

Seitenzahl

320

Maße (L/B/H)

23,3/19/2,2 cm

Gewicht

442 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-119-48058-7

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Rezension

"This book is smart, readable and scary too." (Irish Tech News, August 2018)

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

10.08.2018

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons

Seitenzahl

320

Maße (L/B/H)

23,3/19/2,2 cm

Gewicht

442 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-119-48058-7

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Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Investigating Cryptocurrencies

  • Foreword xxi

    Introduction xxiii

    Part I Understanding the Technology 1

    Chapter 1 What Is a Cryptocurrency? 3

    A New Concept? 3

    Leading Currencies in the Field 8

    Is Blockchain Technology Just for Cryptocurrencies? 9

    Setting Yourself Up as a Bitcoin User 10

    Summary 14

    Chapter 2 The Hard Bit 15

    Hashing 16

    Public/Private Key Encryption 21

    RSA Cryptography 23

    Elliptic Curve Cryptography 28

    Building a Simple Cryptocurrency in the Lab 32

    Summary 36

    Chapter 3 Understanding the Blockchain 39

    The Structure of a Block 40

    The Block Header 42

    Deconstructing Raw Blocks from Hex 47

    Applying This to the Downloaded Hex 51

    Number of Transactions 55

    Block Height 57

    Forks 58

    The Ethereum Block 61

    Summary 65

    Chapter 4 Transactions 67

    The Concept behind a Transaction 67

    The Mechanics of a Transaction 69

    Understanding the Mempool 76

    Understanding the ScriptSig and ScriptPubKey 77

    Interpreting Raw Transactions 79

    Extracting JSON Data 81

    Analyzing Address History 82

    Creating Vanity Addresses 83

    Interpreting Ethereum Transactions 85

    Summary 86

    Chapter 5 Mining 87

    The Proof-of-Work Concept 89

    The Proof-of-Stake Concept 90

    Mining Pools 90

    Mining Fraud 92

    Summary 93

    Chapter 6 Wallets 95

    Wallet Types 96

    Software Wallets 96

    Hardware Wallets 97

    Cold Wallets or Cold Storage 98

    Why Is Recognizing Wallets Important? 99

    Software Wallets 100

    Hardware Wallets 100

    Paper Wallets 100

    The Wallet Import Format (WIF) 101

    How Wallets Store Keys 102

    Setting Up a Covert Wallet 105

    Summary 107

    Chapter 7 Contracts and Tokens 109

    Contracts 109

    Bitcoin 110

    Ethereum 110

    Tokens and Initial Coin Offerings 112

    Summary 116

    Part II Carrying Out Investigations 117

    Chapter 8 Detecting the Use of Cryptocurrencies 119

    The Premises Search 120

    A New Category of Search Targets 121

    Questioning 124

    Searching Online 125

    Extracting Private and Public Keys from Seized Computers 130

    Commercial Tools 130

    Extracting the Wallet File 131

    Automating the Search for Bitcoin Addresses 135

    Finding Data in a Memory Dump 136

    Working on a Live Computer 137

    Acquiring the Wallet File 138

    Exporting Data from the Bitcoin Daemon 140

    Extracting Wallet Data from Live Linux and OSX Systems 144

    Summary 145

    Chapter 9 Analysis of Recovered Addresses and Wallets 147

    Finding Information on a Recovered Address 147

    Extracting Raw Data from Ethereum 154

    Searching for Information on a Specifi c Address 155

    Analyzing a Recovered Wallet 161

    Setting Up Your Investigation Environment 161

    Importing a Private Key 166

    Dealing with an Encrypted Wallet 167

    Inferring Other Data 172

    Summary 173

    Chapter 10 Following the Money 175

    Initial Hints and Tips 175

    Transactions on Blockchain.info 176

    Identifying Change Addresses 177

    Another Simple Method to Identify Clusters 181

    Moving from Transaction to Transaction 182

    Putting the Techniques Together 184

    Other Explorer Sites 186

    Following Ethereum Transactions 189

    Monitoring Addresses 193

    Blockonomics.co 193

    Writing Your Own Monitoring Script 194

    Monitoring Ethereum Addresses 196

    Summary 197

    Chapter 11 Visualization Systems 199

    Online Blockchain Viewers 199

    Blockchain.info 200

    Etherscan.io 201

    Commercial Visualization Systems 214

    Summary 215

    Chapter 12 Finding Your Suspect 217

    Tracing an IP Address 217

    Bitnodes 219

    Other Areas Where IPs Are Stored 226

    Is the Suspect Using Tor? 228

    Is the Suspect Using a Proxy or a VPN? 229

    Tracking to a Service Provider 231

    Considering Open-Source Methods 235

    Accessing and Searching the Dark Web 237

    Detecting and Reading Micromessages 241

    Summary 244

    Chapter 13 Sniffi ng Cryptocurrency Traffi c 245

    What Is Intercept? 246

    Watching a Bitcoin Node 247

    Sniffi ng Data on the Wire 248

    Summary 254

    Chapter 14 Seizing Coins 255

    Asset Seizure 256

    Cashing Out 256

    Setting Up a Storage Wallet 259

    Importing a Suspect's Private Key 261

    Storage and Security 263

    Seizure from an Online Wallet 265

    Practice, Practice, Practice 265

    Summary 266

    Chapter 15 Putting It All Together 267

    Examples of Cryptocurrency Crimes 268

    Buying Illegal Goods 268

    Selling Illegal Goods 268

    Stealing Cryptocurrency 269

    Money Laundering 269

    Kidnap and Extortion 270

    What Have You Learned? 270

    Where Do You Go from Here? 273

    Index 275