Distributed Trust: Supporting Fault-tolerance and Attack-tolerance
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Schneider, Fred B.
Zhou, Lidong
Abstract
Fault-tolerance and attack-tolerance are crucial for implementing a trustworthy service. An emerging thread of research investigates interactions between fault-tolerance and attack-tolerance---specifically, the coupling of replication with threshold cryptography for use in environments satisfying weak assumptions. This coupling yields a new paradigm known as distributed trust, which is the subject of this paper.
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2004-01-23
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Cornell University
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technical report