Randomized byzantine generals

  • Authors:
  • Michael O. Rabin

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • SFCS '83 Proceedings of the 24th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 1983

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Abstract

We present a randomized solution for the Byzantine Generals Problems. The solution works in the synchronous as well as the asynchronous case and produces Byzantine Agreement within a fixed small expected number of computational rounds, independent of the number n of processes and the bound t on the number of faulty processes. The solution uses A. Shamir's method for sharing secrets. It specializes to produce a simple solution for the Distributed Commit problem.