Paper 2019/816 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2019/816 ↗

Crisis: Probabilistically Self Organizing Total Order in Unstructured P2P Networks

Mirco Richter
Abstract

A framework for asynchronous, signature free, fully local and probabilistically converging total order algorithms is developed, that may survive in high entropy, unstructured Peer-to-Peer networks with near optimal communication efficiency. Regarding the natural boundaries of the CAP-theorem, the protocol chooses different compromises for consistency and availability, depending on the severity of the attack. The family is parameterized by a few constants and external functions called voting-weight, incentivation and punishement, difficulty oracle and quorum-selector. These functions are necessary to fine tune the dynamics and very different long term behavior might appear, depending on any actual choice.

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Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Preprint.
History
2019-07-14: last updated
2019-07-14: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2019/816
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2019/816,
      author = {Mirco Richter},
      title = {Crisis: Probabilistically Self Organizing Total Order in Unstructured P2P Networks},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2019/816},
      year = {2019},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/816}
}
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