Updated 2019-12-16
Privacy
Privacy in Besu refers to the ability to keep transactions private between the involved participants. Other participants cannot access the transaction content or list of participants.
Important
For production systems requiring private transactions:
- We recommend using a network with a consensus mechanism supporting transaction finality. For example, IBFT 2.0.
- Orion must be highly available and run in a separate instance to Besu.
Important
Using private transactions with pruning is not supported.
Private Transaction Manager
Besu uses a Private Transaction Manager to implement privacy. For example, Orion.
Each Besu node that sends or receives private transactions requires an associated Orion node.
Private transactions are passed from the Besu node to the associated Orion node. The Orion node encrypts and directly distributes (that is, point to point) the private transaction to Orion nodes participating in the transaction.
Tip
Private Transaction Managers are also known as Enclaves.