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Title:
TARDIGRADE: An Atomic Broadcast Protocol for Arbitrary Network Conditions
Authors: Erica Blum, Jonathan Katz, Julian Loss
Abstract:We study the problem of atomic broadcast—the underlying problem addressed by blockchain protocols—in the presence of a malicious adversary who corrupts some fraction of the n parties running the protocol. Existing protocols are either robust for any number of corruptions in a synchronous network (where messages are delivered within some known time \Delta) but fail if the synchrony assumption is violated, or tolerate fewer than n/3 corrupted parties in an asynchronous network (where messages can be delayed arbitrarily) and cannot tolerate more corruptions even if the network happens to be well behaved. We design an atomic broadcast protocol (TARDIGRADE) that, for any t_s \geq t_a with 2t_s + t_a < n, provides security against t_s corrupted parties if the network is synchronous, while remaining secure when t_a parties are corrupted even in an asynchronous network. We show that TARDIGRADE achieves optimal tradeoffs between t_s and t_a. Finally, we show a second protocol (UPGRADE) with similar (but slightly weaker) guarantees that achieves per-transaction communication complexity linear in n.
ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/142
Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvoq6JxJcNI
Slides: https://iacr.org/submit/files/slides/2021/asiacrypt/asiacrypt2021/42/slides.pdf
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