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

Sunday, December 9, 2018

Denial of service attack against final Byzantine fault tolerant systems


Most classical Byzantine fault tolerant system prefers finality on the consensus based on a voting algorithm that might not scale as good as stochastic finality. With other worlds, these systems prefer consistency over availability in case of network separation. It means, however, that the best denial of service attack against such a systems is the network separation, like separating the nodes in 60 - 40 %. In such case , the consensus mechanism simply stops.