A security testing mechanism for detecting attacks in distributed software applications using blockchain

• Abdullah Algarni ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: amsalgarni@kau.edu.sa

  Affiliation Computer Science Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7154-9821

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• Abdulaziz Attaallah,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Computer Science Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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• Fathi Eassa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Computer Science Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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• Maher Khemakhem,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Computer Science Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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• Kamal Jambi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Computer Science Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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• Hosam Aljihani,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science, College of Computer Science and Engineering, Taibah University, Madinah, Saudi Arabia

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• Khalid Almarhabi,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science, College of Computing at Alqunfudah, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

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• Faisal Albalwy

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Computer Science, College of Computer Science and Engineering, Taibah University, Madinah, Saudi Arabia, Division of Informatics, Imaging and Data Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2342-2156

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