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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2005
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2001
Applicants:
Klaus Kursawe, Rueschlikon, CH;
Victor Shoup, Zurich, CH;
Christian Cachin, Oberrieden, CH;
Inventors:
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L009/00 ; H04K001/00 ; G06F007/58 ; G06F011/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Byzantine Agreement requires a set of parties in a distributed system to agree on a value even if some parties are corrupted. The invention comprises a method for achieving agreement among participating network devices in an asynchronous network is disclosed that makes use of cryptography, specifically of threshold digital signatures and a distributed coin-tossing protocol.