...by Daniel Szego
quote
"On a long enough timeline we will all become Satoshi Nakamoto.."
Daniel Szego

Monday, November 19, 2018

Architecting for Byzantine fault tolerance

Designing computer architectures of the future will be surely extended by some new features, namely byzantine fault tolerance and trust model. As fault tolerance is usually an aspect to investigate, future systems can be designed for Byzantine fault tolerance, meaning that even if parts of the system is hacked, the system deliver correct results. One aspect that needs to be taken into account is the RAFT theorem which implies that in case of network partition the system has to choose between availability and consistency. Another important design choice is the trust model. At analyzing the trust model each component of the system has to be investigated in terms if a service of the system works only if we trust in the given component. In this sense we can distinguish between trusted, trustless or semi-trusted services or components.