In addition to limiting the adversary via a communication model synchrony, asynchrony, or partial synchrony, we need a way to limit the adversary’s power to corrupt parties. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. – John Dalberg-Acton 1887 As John observed almost 150 years ago, if the adversary’s...| decentralizedthoughts.github.io
In this series of posts, we explore the marvelous world of consensus in the Asynchronous model. In this post, we start by simply defining the problem. Recall the FLP theorem: FLP theorem 1985: Any protocol where no two non-faulty parties decide different values in the asynchronous model that is resilient...| decentralizedthoughts.github.io