Round complexity of authenticated broadcast with a dishonest majority

Proceedings - Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 658-668

  Garay, Juan A ^a   Katz, Jonathan ^b   Chiu Yuen, Koo ^b   Ostrovsky, Rafail ^c  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b Institute of Advanced Computer Science

^c Engineering IV

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(ALGORITHMIC) COMPLEXITY; DIGITAL SIGNATURES;

EID: 46749153857     PISSN: 02725428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FOCS.2007.4389534     Document Type: Conference Paper

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