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We present a novel translation of systems that are tolerant of crash failures to systems that are tolerant of Byzantine failures in an asynchronous environment, making weaker assumptions than previous approaches. In particular, we assume little about how the application is coded. The translation exploits an extension of the Srikanth-Toueg protocol, supporting ordering in addition to authentication and persistent delivery. We illustrate the approach by synthesizing a version of the Castro and Liskov Practical Byzantine Replication protocol from the Oki and Liskov Viewstamped Replication protocol.
This work is supported by AFOSR grants FA9550-07-1-0304, FA8750-06-2-0060, FA9550-06-1-0019, FA9550-06-1-0244, the National Science Foundation under grant 0424422, and ISF, ISOC, and CCR. Any opinions expressed in this publications are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies.
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Ho, C., Dolev, D., van Renesse, R. (2007). Making Distributed Applications Robust. In: Tovar, E., Tsigas, P., Fouchal, H. (eds) Principles of Distributed Systems. OPODIS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4878. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77096-1_17
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