How to securely replicate services
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Secure agreement protocols: reliable and atomic group multicast in rampart
CCS '94 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Computer and communications security
A security architecture for fault-tolerant systems
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS) - Special issue on computer architecture
Diffie-Hellman key distribution extended to group communication
CCS '96 Proceedings of the 3rd ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Multicast security and its extension to a mobile environment
Wireless Networks
Key Agreement in Dynamic Peer Groups
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
On virtual private networks security design issues
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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A group membership protocol enables processes in a distributed system to agree on a group of processes that are currently operational. Membership protocols are a core component of many distributed systems and have proved to be fundamental for maintaining availability and consistency in distributed applications. In this paper we present a membership protocol for asynchronous distributed systems that tolerates the malicious corruption of group members. Our protocol ensures that correct members control and consistently observe changes to the group membership, provided that in each instance of the group membership, fewerthan one-third of the members are corrupted or fail benignly. The protocol has many potential applications in secure systems and, in particular, is a central component of a toolkit for constructing high-integrity distributed services that we are presently implementing.