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Extended Validity and Consistency in Byzantine Agreement

Authors:
Matthias Fitzi
Martin Hirt
J\"urg Wullschleger
Thomas Holenstein
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2002/053
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Abstract: A broadcast protocol allows a sender to distribute a value among a set of players such that it is guaranteed that all players receive the same value (consistency), and if the sender is honest, then all players receive the sender's value (validity). Classical broadcast protocols for $n$ players provide security with respect to a fixed threshold $t
BibTeX
@misc{eprint-2002-11577,
  title={Extended Validity and Consistency in Byzantine Agreement},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={cryptographic protocols / Byzantine agreement, detectable precomputation, multi-party computation, unconditional security},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2002/053},
  note={ hirt@inf.ethz.ch 11803 received 26 Apr 2002},
  author={Matthias Fitzi and Martin Hirt and J\"urg Wullschleger and Thomas Holenstein},
  year=2002
}