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Optimal Communication Complexity of Authenticated Byzantine Agreement

Authors Atsuki Momose, Ling Ren

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Atsuki Momose
  • Nagoya University, Aichi, Japan
  • Intelligent Systems Laboratory, SECOM CO.,LTD., Tokyo, Japan
Ling Ren
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

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We would like to thank Zhuolun Xiang for helpful feedback.

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Atsuki Momose and Ling Ren. Optimal Communication Complexity of Authenticated Byzantine Agreement. In 35th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 209, pp. 32:1-32:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2021.32

Abstract

Byzantine Agreement (BA) is one of the most fundamental problems in distributed computing, and its communication complexity is an important efficiency metric. It is well known that quadratic communication is necessary for BA in the worst case due to a lower bound by Dolev and Reischuk. This lower bound has been shown to be tight for the unauthenticated setting with f < n/3 by Berman et al. but a considerable gap remains for the authenticated setting with n/3 ≤ f < n/2. This paper provides two results towards closing this gap. Both protocols have a quadratic communication complexity and have different trade-offs in resilience and assumptions. The first protocol achieves the optimal resilience of f < n/2 but requires a trusted setup for threshold signature. The second protocol achieves near optimal resilience f ≤ (1/2 - ε)n in the standard PKI model.

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  • Security and privacy → Distributed systems security
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  • Byzantine Agreement
  • Communication Complexity
  • Lower Bound

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