[Resource Topic] 2015/352: Broadcast from Minicast Secure Against General Adversaries

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Title:
Broadcast from Minicast Secure Against General Adversaries

Authors: Pavel Raykov

Abstract:

Byzantine broadcast is a distributed primitive that allows a specific party to consistently distribute a message among n parties in the presence of potential misbehavior of up to t of the parties. The celebrated result of \cite{PSL80} shows that broadcast is achievable from point-to-point channels if and only if t < n/3. The following two generalizations have been proposed to the original broadcast problem. In~\cite{FM98} the authors considered a \emph{general adversary} characterized by the sets of parties that can be corrupted. It was shown that broadcast is achievable from point-to-point channels if and only if no three possible corrupted sets can cover the whole party set. In~\cite{CFFLMM05} the notion of point-to-point channels has been extended to the b-minicast channels allowing to locally broadcast among any subset of b parties. It has been shown that broadcast secure against adversaries corrupting up to t parties is achievable from b-minicast if and only if t < \frac{b-1}{b+1}n. In this paper we combine both generalizations by considering the problem of achieving broadcast from b-minicast channels secure against general adversaries. Our main result is a condition on the possible corrupted sets such that broadcast is achievable from b-minicast if and only if this condition holds.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/352

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