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公开(公告)号:US20190377648A1
公开(公告)日:2019-12-12
申请号:US16005351
申请日:2018-06-11
Applicant: VMware, Inc.
Inventor: Ittai Abraham , Dahlia Malkhi , Guy Golan Gueta
Abstract: Techniques for implementing linear view-change in a Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) protocol running on a distributed system comprising n replicas are provided. According to one set of embodiments, at a time of performing a view-change from a current view number v to a new view number v+1, a replica in the n replicas corresponding to a new proposer for new view number v+1 can generate a PREPARE message comprising a single COMMIT certificate, where the single COMMIT certificate is the highest COMMIT certificate the new proposer is aware of. The new proposer can then transmit the PREPARE message with the single COMMIT certificate to all other replicas in the n replicas.
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公开(公告)号:US20190129809A1
公开(公告)日:2019-05-02
申请号:US15729568
申请日:2017-11-01
Applicant: VMware, Inc.
Inventor: Soumya Basu , Alin Tomescu , Dahlia Malkhi , Michael Reiter , Adrian Seredinschi , Ittai Abraham , Guy Golan Gueta
Abstract: Techniques for implementing Byzantine fault tolerance with verifiable secret sharing at constant overhead are provided. In one set of embodiments, a client can determine a secret value s to be shared with N replicas in a distributed system, s being input data for a service operation provided by the N replicas. The client can further encode s into an f-degree polynomial P(x) where f corresponds to a maximum number of faulty replicas in the distributed system, evaluate P(x) at i for i=1 to N resulting in N evaluations P(i), generate at least one f-degree recovery polynomial R(x) based on a distributed pseudo-random function (DPRF) fα(x), and evaluate R(x) at i for i=1 to N resulting in at least N evaluations R(i). The client can then invoke the service operation, the invoking comprising transmitting a message including P(i) and R(i) to each respective replica i.
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