StaticMethod » byzantine generals http://www.staticmethod.net Things programmers might find interesting Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:05:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Byzantine Generals http://www.staticmethod.net/2009/04/30/byzantine-generals/ http://www.staticmethod.net/2009/04/30/byzantine-generals/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:03:23 +0000 Chris http://www.staticmethod.net/?p=15 Article on the “Papers in Computer Science” blog about the Byzantine Generals problem. I like the summary on the blog of the problem, but I found the referenced paper a little hard to read at first, might just need to spend more time with it.

The Byzantine Generals problem is an exercise in fault tolerance and dealing with conflicting or even malicious behavior/messages in a distributed system.

Here’s the article

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