An almost-surely terminating polynomial protocol for asynchronous Byzantine agreement with optimal resilience

Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 405-414

  Abraham, Ittai ^a   Dolev, Danny ^a   Halpern, Joseph Y ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Cornell University ^*

Author keywords

Byzantine agreement; Distributed computing; Secret sharing

Indexed keywords

POLYNOMIALS;

ASYNCHRONOUS SYSTEM; BYZANTINE AGREEMENT; MEMORY CONSUMPTION; NON-FAULTY PROCESS; OPTIMAL RESILIENCE; PRIVATE CHANNELS; SECRET SHARING; VERIFIABLE SECRET SHARING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 57549095453     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1400751.1400804     Document Type: Conference Paper

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