[Resource Topic] 2022/917: Almost-Surely Terminating Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement Against General Adversaries with Optimal Resilience

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Title:
Almost-Surely Terminating Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement Against General Adversaries with Optimal Resilience

Authors: Ashish Choudhury

Abstract:

In this work, we present an almost-surely terminating asynchronous Byzantine agreement (ABA) protocol for n parties. Our protocol requires {\cal O}(n^2) expected time and is secure against a computationally-unbounded malicious (Byzantine) adversary, characterized by a non-threshold adversary structure {\cal Z}, which enumerates all possible subsets of potentially corrupt parties. Our protocol has optimal resilience where {\cal Z} satisfies the {\cal Q}^{(3)} condition; i.e. union of no three subsets from {\cal Z} covers all the n parties. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first almost-surely terminating ABA protocol with {\cal Q}^{(3)} condition. Previously, almost-surely terminating ABA protocol is known with non-optimal resilience where {\cal Z} satisfies the {\cal Q}^{(4)} condition; i.e. union of no four subsets from {\cal Z} covers all the n parties. To design our protocol, we present a shunning asynchronous verifiable secret-sharing (SAVSS) scheme with {\cal Q}^{(3)} condition, which is of independent interest.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/917

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