Paper 2021/632
Internet Computer Consensus
Jan Camenisch, Manu Drijvers, Timo Hanke, Yvonne-Anne Pignolet, Victor Shoup, and Dominic Williams
Abstract
We present the Internet Computer Consensus (ICC) family of protocols for
atomic broadcast (a.k.a., consensus),
which underpin the Byzantine fault-tolerant
replicated state machines of the Internet Computer.
The ICC protocols are leader-based protocols that
assume partial synchrony, and that are
fully integrated with a blockchain.
The leader changes probabilistically in every round.
These protocols are extremely simple and robust:
in any round where the leader is corrupt (which itself happens
with probability less than
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Cryptographic protocols
- Publication info
- Preprint. MINOR revision.
- Keywords
- consensus
- Contact author(s)
- victor @ shoup net
- History
- 2021-05-17: received
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2021/632
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2021/632, author = {Jan Camenisch and Manu Drijvers and Timo Hanke and Yvonne-Anne Pignolet and Victor Shoup and Dominic Williams}, title = {Internet Computer Consensus}, howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2021/632}, year = {2021}, url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/632} }