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Impossibility of Distributed Consensus with One Faulty Process

Michael J. Fischer, Nancy A. Lynch & Michael S. Paterson

Shows no deterministic protocol can guarantee consensus in an asynchronous system if even one process may fail.

Level: Advanced
Access: Free
Length: —
Copy: link checked 17 Sept 2026
Filed under: Distributed Systems

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