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Byzantine fault tolerant public key authentication in peer-to-peer systems
Available online 22 August 2005.
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Abstract
We describe Byzantine fault tolerant authentication, a mechanism for public key authentication in peer-to-peer systems. Authentication is done without trusted third parties, tolerates Byzantine faults and is eventually correct if more than a threshold of the peers are honest. This paper addresses the design, correctness, and fault tolerance of authentication over insecure asynchronous networks. An anti-entropy version of the protocol is developed to provide lazy authentication with logarithmic messaging cost. The cost implications of the authentication mechanism are studied by simulation.
Keywords: Public key authentication; Peer-to-peer systems; Byzantine fault tolerance
Article Outline
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Model
- 2.1. Network
- 2.2. Honest majority
- 2.3. Adversaries
- 2.4. Authentication
- 2.5. Trusted groups
- 3. Architecture
- 3.1. Authentication protocol
- 3.2. Bootstrapping
- 3.3. Membership control protocol
- 3.3.1. Addition to trusted groups
- 3.3.2. Deletion from trusted groups
- 3.3.3. Group migration
- 4. Analysis
- 4.1. Challenge response
- 4.2. Distributed authentication
- 4.3. Group evolution
- 4.4. Formation of honest majority groups
- 5. Public key infection
- 5.1. Anti-entropy sessions
- 5.2. Encrypted timestamps
- 5.3. Complexity and coverage
- 5.4. Size of the message cache
- 6. Application
- 7. Simulation
- 7.1. Bootstrapping cost
- 7.2. Authentication cost
- 8. Discussion
- 9. Related work
- 10. Conclusion and future work
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Vitae






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