Common use of Byzantine Agreement Clause in Contracts

Byzantine Agreement. Finding consensus as in Definition 2.1 in a system with byzantine nodes is called byzantine agreement. An algorithm is f-resilient if it still works correctly with f byzantine nodes.

Byzantine Agreement. Finding consensus as in Definition 2.1 in a system with byzantine nodes is called byzantine agreement. An algorithm is f-resilient f -resilient if it still works correctly with f byzantine nodes.. Remarks: • As for consensus (Definition 2.1) we also need agreement, termination and validity. Agreement and termination are straight-forward, but what about validity?

Byzantine Agreement. Finding consensus as in Definition 2.1 in a system with byzantine nodes is called byzantine agreement. An algorithm is f-resilient f -resilient if it still works correctly with f byzantine nodes. Remarks: • As for consensus (Definition 2.1) we also need agreement, termination and validity. Agreement and termination are straight-forward, but what about validity? Definition 3.3 (Any-Input Validity). The decision value must be the input value of any node.