The Byzantine Generals Problem

1982 · ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems · 6,037 citations · 4 from inside this corpus

Leslie Lamport, Robert E. Shostak, Marshall C. Pease

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What this paper cites, inside the corpus

Paper	Year	Cited
A method for obtaining digital signatures and public-key cryptosystems	1978	13,242
A method for obtaining digital signatures and public-key cryptosystems	1983	13,151
Reaching Agreement in the Presence of Faults	1980	2,382

What cites it, inside the corpus

Paper	Year	Cited
Advances and Open Problems in Federated Learning	2020	5,383
The Sybil Attack	2002	4,424
Our Data, Ourselves: Privacy Via Distributed Noise Generation	2006	1,826
Multiparty unconditionally secure protocols	1988	1,550

Links

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Topics

Cryptography and Data Security	Computer Science
Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs	Computer Science
Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge	Computer Science

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complete

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supports5 reference(s) recorded.
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Provenance

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