Byzantine Agreement on Steroids Silvio MicaliByzantine Agreement • March 27th, 2017
Contract Type FiledMarch 27th, 2017Abstract. As insightfully defined by Pease, Shostak, and Lamport, Byzantine agreement (BA) has rightfully received enormous attention, and is one of the most demanding and compelling notions in fault-tolerant and secure computation. Yet, BA protocols are too slow for most practical applications, and often satisfy conditions much weaker than those originally envisaged.