Open AccessLevels of authentication in distributed agreement
Author(s) -
Malte Borcherding
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
lecture notes in computer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Book series
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.249
H-Index - 400
eISSN - 1611-3349
pISSN - 0302-9743
ISBN - 3-540-61769-8
DOI - 10.1007/3-540-61769-8_4
Subject(s) - computer science , authentication (law) , key (lock) , distributed computing , agreement , public key cryptography , message authentication code , fault tolerance , byzantine fault tolerance , key distribution , server , computer security , computer network , theoretical computer science , cryptography , encryption , philosophy , linguistics
Reaching agreement in the presence of Byzantine (arbitrary) faults is a fundamental problem in distributed systems. It has been shown that message authentication is a useful tool in designing protocols with high fault tolerance, but it imposes the additional problem of key distribution.
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