Zombies and Ghosts: Optimal Byzantine Agreement in the Presence of Omission Faults

ePrint Report: Zombies and Ghosts: Optimal Byzantine Agreement in the Presence of Omission Faults

Julian Loss, Gilad Stern

Studying the feasibility of Byzantine Agreement (BA) in realistic fault models is an important question in the area of distributed computing and cryptography. In this work, we revisit the mixed fault model with Byzantine (malicious) faults and omission faults put forth by Hauser, Maurer, and Zikas (TCC 2009), who showed that BA (and MPC) is possible with $t$ Byzantine faults, $s$ send …

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