Welcome to the resource topic for 2023/1273
Title:
Fait Accompli Committee Selection: Improving the Size-Security Tradeoff of Stake-Based Committees
Authors: Peter Gaži, Aggelos Kiayias, Alexander Russell
Abstract:We study the problem of committee selection in the context of proof-of-stake consensus mechanisms or distributed ledgers. These settings determine a family of participating parties—each of which has been assigned a non-negative “stake”—and are subject to an adversary that may corrupt a subset of the parties. The challenge is to select a committee of participants that accurately reflects the proportion of corrupt and honest parties, as measured by stake, in the full population. The trade-off between committee size and the probability of selecting a committee that over-represents the corrupt parties is a fundamental factor in both security and efficiency of proof-of-stake consensus, as well as committee-run layer-two protocols.
We propose and analyze several new committee selection schemes that improve upon existing techniques by adopting low-variance assignment of certain committee members that hold significant stake. These schemes provide notable improvements to the size–security trade-off arising from the stake distributions of many deployed ledgers.
ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1273
See all topics related to this paper.
Feel free to post resources that are related to this paper below.
Example resources include: implementations, explanation materials, talks, slides, links to previous discussions on other websites.
For more information, see the rules for Resource Topics .