Paper 2013/553

Multi-Valued Byzantine Broadcast: the t<n Case

Martin Hirt and Pavel Raykov

Abstract

All known protocols implementing broadcast from synchronous point-to-point channels tolerating any t<n Byzantine corruptions have communication complexity at least Ω(n2). We give cryptographically secure and information-theoretically secure protocols for t<n that communicate O(n) bits in order to broadcast sufficiently long bit messages. This matches the optimal communication complexity bound for any protocol allowing to broadcast bit messages. While broadcast protocols with the optimal communication complexity exist in cases where t<n/3 (by Liang and Vaidya in PODC '11) or t<n/2 (by Fitzi and Hirt in PODC '06), this paper is the first to present such protocols for t<n.

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Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Preprint. MINOR revision.
Keywords
byzantinemulti-valued broadcast
Contact author(s)
raykov pavel @ gmail com
History
2014-05-26: last of 3 revisions
2013-09-04: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2013/553
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2013/553,
      author = {Martin Hirt and Pavel Raykov},
      title = {Multi-Valued Byzantine Broadcast: the $t < n$ Case},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2013/553},
      year = {2013},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/553}
}
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