Modeling Mobile Crash in Byzantine Consensus

ePrint Report: Modeling Mobile Crash in Byzantine Consensus

Hans Schmiedel, Runchao Han, Qiang Tang, Ron Steinfeld, Jiangshan Yu

Targeted Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks have been a practical concern
for permissionless blockchains. Potential solutions, such as random
sampling, are adopted by blockchains.
However, the associated security guarantees have only been informally discussed in prior work. This
is due to the fact that existing adversary models are either not
fully capturing this attack or giving up certain design choices
(as in the sleepy …

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