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Paper

1999

Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance

Miguel Castro & Barbara Liskov

Shows Byzantine agreement can run fast enough for real storage systems, not just as a theoretical possibility, by optimising the common case where no replica is actually faulty.

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Filed under Distributed Systems in Computer Science.