Byzantine Generals Problem
Lamport, Shostak, and Pease's formulation of agreement when some participants may send arbitrary, conflicting messages: loyal generals must agree on a plan despite traitors who can tell different lies to different peers. It is the canonical abstraction for consensus under arbitrary (not just crash) faults.
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Lamport, Shostak, and Pease's formulation of agreement when some participants may send arbitrary, conflicting messages: loyal generals must agree on a plan despite traitors who can tell different lies to different peers. It is the canonical abstraction for consensus under arbitrary (not just crash) faults.
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