Title
Unifying Byzantine Consensus Algorithms with Weak Interactive Consistency
Abstract
The paper considers the consensus problem in a partially synchronous system with Byzantine processes. In this context, the literature distinguishes authenticated Byzantine faults, where messages can be signed by the sending process (with the assumption that the signature cannot be forged by any other process), and Byzantine faults, where there is no mechanism for signatures (but the receiver of a message knows the identity of the sender). The paper proposes an abstraction called weak interactive consistency (WIC ) that unifies consensus algorithms with and without signed messages. WIC can be implemented with and without signatures. The power of WIC is illustrated on two seminal Byzantine consensus algorithms: the Castro-Liskov PBFT algorithm (no signatures) and the Martin-Alvisi FaB Paxos algorithms (signatures). WIC allows a very concise expression of these two algorithms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-10877-8_24
OPODIS
Keywords
Field
DocType
byzantine fault,synchronous system,unifies consensus algorithm,concise expression,martin-alvisi fab paxos algorithm,seminal byzantine consensus algorithm,byzantine consensus algorithms,byzantine process,castro-liskov pbft algorithm,weak interactive consistency,literature distinguishes,consensus problem,authentication,weak interaction,unification,consensus,distributed algorithms,fault tolerance
Consensus,Authentication,Computer science,Unification,Byzantine fault tolerance,Communication source,Theoretical computer science,Distributed algorithm,Quantum Byzantine agreement,Distributed computing,Paxos
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5923
0302-9743
10
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.56
14
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zarko Milosevic15610.35
Martin Hutle214110.14
André Schiper33537275.09