A thread of research has emerged to investigate the interactions of replication with threshold cryptography for use in environments that satisfy weak assumptions. The result is a new paradigm known as distributed trust; this article attempts to survey that landscape.
Index Terms:
cryptography, trusted systems, state machines
Citation:
Fred B. Schneider, Lidong Zhou, "Implementing Trustworthy Services Using Replicated State Machines," IEEE Security and Privacy, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 34-43, Sep./Oct. 2005, doi:10.1109/MSP.2005.125