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Optimistic Asynchronous Atomic Broadcast

Authors:
Klaus Kursawe
Victor Shoup
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2001/022
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Abstract: This paper presents a new protocol for atomic broadcast in an asynchronous network with a maximal number of Byzantine failures. It guarantees both safety and liveness without making any timing assumptions or using any type of failure detector. Under normal circumstances, the protocol runs in an optimistic mode, with extremely low message and computational complexity -- essentially, just performing a Bracha broadcast for each request. In particular, no potentially expensive public-key cryptographic operations are used. In rare circumstances, the protocol may briefly switch to a pessimistic mode, where both the message and computational complexity are significantly higher than in the optimistic mode, but are still reasonable.
BibTeX
@misc{eprint-2001-11434,
  title={Optimistic Asynchronous Atomic Broadcast},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={cryptographic protocols / broadcast},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2001/022},
  note={ sho@zurich.ibm.com 11796 received 6 Mar 2001, last revised 19 Apr 2002},
  author={Klaus Kursawe and Victor Shoup},
  year=2001
}