[Resource Topic] 2019/179: Synchronous, with a Chance of Partition Tolerance

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Title:
Synchronous, with a Chance of Partition Tolerance

Authors: Yue Guo, Rafael Pass, Elaine Shi

Abstract:

Murphy, Murky, Mopey, Moody, and Morose decide to write a paper together over the Internet and submit it to the prestigious CRYPTO’19 conference that has the most amazing PC. They encounter a few problems. First, not everyone is online every day: some are lazy and go skiing on Mondays; others cannot use git correctly and they are completely unaware that they are losing messages. Second, a small subset of the co-authors may be secretly plotting to disrupt the project (e.g., because they are writing a competing paper in stealth). Suppose that each day, sufficiently many honest co-authors are online (and use git correctly); moreover, suppose that messages checked into git on Monday can be correctly received by honest and online co-authors on Tuesday or any future day. Can the honest co-authors successfully finish the paper in a small number of days such that they make the CRYPTO deadline; and perhaps importantly, can all the honest co-authors, including even those who are lazy and those who sometimes use git incorrectly, agree on the final theorem?

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/179

Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv5W4gZirus

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